Relative clause

[Elisângela Lopes da Silva]

I am going to give up... I don't know how combine these sentences in one single sentence...

I saw a tramp. He was trashing a car. The car was made of wood. There were a lot things in the car. The tramp smiled me. He didn't have teeth.

 

[charliedeut]

Give it a try and we can tell you whether it is correct or not.

 

[5jj]

I saw a tramp. He was trashing a car. The car was made of wood. There were a lot things in the car. The tramp smiled me. He didn't have teeth.

It's possible, but the result will be rather unnatural. Why do you want to combine so many different things into one sentence?

 

[emsr2d2]

I am going to give up... I don't know how combine these sentences in one single sentence...

I saw a tramp. He was trashing a car. The car was made of wood. There were a lot things in the car. The tramp smiled me. He didn't have teeth.

I'm going to bite the bullet here and hope that this isn't homework, simply because I find the resultant sentence rather amusing:

I was smiled at by a toothless tramp who was trashing a wooden, over-filled car.

If that was your homework and you submit my work to your teacher, I will be quite upset but I also hope that your teacher will see what a ludicrous exercise you were set. If it wasn't your homework, then I have no idea why you would undertake such a pointless exercise.

 

[Rover_KE]

If it is your homework, Elisângela Lopes da Silva, and you submit it to your teacher as your own work, you are going to be very embarrassed when you are praised to the skies for fashioning such a wondrous solution to a very knotty problem.

I can't help feeling your teacher will suspect you have had a little help.;-)

 

[TomUK]

Not a teacher!

...a very knotty problem.

I usually spell this word without a 'k' and with a 'u' instead of the 'o'.

TomUK

 

[Elisângela Lopes da Silva]

Hi everybody

It was not a homework,but a question of my English Exam (B1 level). There were another four questions similar to this. I didn't remember (I'm still in a bit state of shock) everything. But I think another question was something like this:

Jim broke the table. We used the table to do picnics. The table was made of straw. The table belongs to James. James is my friend. I was angry.

We should combine these short sentences in one single sentence using relative clause (defining and non- defining clause).

P.s: There were still a text writing (15 lines), a vocabulary question (we had to memorize two thousands word in english), a text grammar (determiner, modifier post-modifier, EVERY RULES of definitive article, etc). Time allowed for this test: 1 hour and 15 minutes... It was horrible... i am seriously thinking to drop out the course...

 

[SoothingDave]

I would note that "tramp" is usually only used in the sense of a loose woman and not of a homeless man.

 

[Rover_KE]

I would note that "tramp" is usually only used in the sense of a loose woman and not of a homeless man.

It isn't in British English.

 

[emsr2d2]

But I think another question was something like this:

Jim broke the table. We used the table to do picnics. The table was made of straw. The table belongs to James. James is my friend. I was angry.

We should combine these short sentences in one single sentence using relative clause (defining and non- defining clause).

So how did you combine those into one sentence?

 

[Elisângela Lopes da Silva]

So how did you combine those into one sentence?

Jim broke the table. We used the table to do picnics. The table was made of straw.You should hold it. The table belongs to James. James is my friend. I was angry.

I forgot the part in bold.

emsr2d2... I don't know how combine... I tried, but it is so difficult for me...

"You should hold the straw table, which we used to do picnics and belongs to my friend James, because Jim broke it making be angry."

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[Elisângela Lopes da Silva]

I'm going to bite the bullet here and hope that this isn't homework, simply because I find the resultant sentence rather amusing:

I was smiled at by a toothless tramp who was trashing a wooden, over-filled car.

If that was your homework and you submit my work to your teacher, I will be quite upset but I also hope that your teacher will see what a ludicrous exercise you were set. If it wasn't your homework, then I have no idea why you would undertake such a pointless exercise.

I liked this...

A toothless tramp, who was trashing a wooden, over-filled car, smiled at me.

 

[emsr2d2]

Jim broke the table. We used the table to do picnics. The table was made of straw.You should hold it. The table belongs to James. James is my friend. I was angry.

I forgot the part in bold.

emsr2d2... I don't know how combine... I tried, but it is so difficult for me...

"You should hold the straw table, which we used to do picnics and belongs to my friend James, because Jim broke it making be angry."

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I don't understand where "You should hold it" comes into this. Why would anyone need to hold a broken table? I could understand it if it said "You should fix/repair it". I don't know who wrote the original questions but they are badly written. We don't "do picnics" - we "have a picnic" or we "picnic". Tables are rarely made of straw. There is no connection between "I was angry" and "James is my friend". Is James also known as Jim?

I feel sorry for you that this was part of a test. These sentences (and the resulting single sentences) are nonsensical and a pointless exercise.

 

[Elisângela Lopes da Silva]

I don't understand where "You should hold it" comes into this. Why would anyone need to hold a broken table? I could understand it if it said "You should fix/repair it". I don't know who wrote the original questions but they are badly written. We don't "do picnics" - we "have a picnic" or we "picnic". Tables are rarely made of straw. There is no connection between "I was angry" and "James is my friend". Is James also known as Jim?

I feel sorry for you that this was part of a test. These sentences (and the resulting single sentences) are nonsensical and a pointless exercise.

Your'e right, i am so sorry...the correct sentence is "You should fold it", not you should hold it. I had also committed a second error. It is "we used to have a picnic". But the table was made of straw and old too.

In any case, there are four people: one broke the table, another owned the table, me and you.

I am sorry if I am boring you...

 

[emsr2d2]

Well, folding a table made of straw is difficult enough but folding a broken straw table is, I would say, nigh on impossible.