Describe a thing with which or thatصف شيئًا بجملة تبدأ بـ which أو that

The idea, simply

Use which or that after a noun for a thing to show which one you mean: This is the phone that I bought last week. When a new subject such as I or you follows, you can drop that: the phone I bought. Do not repeat the object at the end: say the book that I read, not the book that I read it.

Examples

• This is the phone that I bought last week.

• I lost the keys which open the office.

• The film we watched was very long.

Lesson words

• buyيشتري
  I want to buy a new laptop.
• loseيضيع، يفقد
  Do not lose your ticket.
• rentيستأجر
  We rented a flat near work.
• chargerشاحن
  Can I borrow your charger?
• brokenمكسور، معطّل
  The lift is broken again.

Lesson exercises

1. Put the words in the correct order.

   Words: bought / I / is / last / phone / that / the / This / week.

   Answer

   This is the phone that I bought last week.

2. Complete the gap: Where is the bag ___ I left here?

   Answer

   that

3. Choose the correct English sentence.

   • The book that you gave me is great.
   • The book that you gave me it is great.
   • The book who you gave me is great.
   Answer

   The book that you gave me is great.

4. In which sentence can you drop that?

   • The car that we rented was new.
   • The car that broke down was new.
   • The bus that goes to Giza is late.
   Answer

   The car that we rented was new.

   A new subject, we, follows that, so it can go: The car we rented. In the other two sentences that is the subject, so it stays.

5. Identify a thing with a sentence that says what makes it different.

   Model answer

   This is the phone that I bought last week.

   Compare your answer with the model and check word order, capitals, and punctuation.