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The Lovely Bones, Adjective Clauses

Combine the following sentences using a relative pronoun/adjective clause. 1. The boy was Suzie’s classmate. The boy was suspected of the murder. __2__. Fenerman was a detective. Fenerman talked to suzie’s father. 3. Fenerman came to Suzie’s house to interview the family. Fenerman was attracted to Suzie’s mom. 4. Lindsay got a necklace with half a heart from Samuel. Samuel was wearing the other half of the heart around his neck. 5. Harvey found Suzie’s charm bracelet after he killed her. Suzie’s mother had given her the charm bracelet. 6. Suzie went to junior high. Suzie included scenes from high school in her version of heaven. 7. Mr. Harvey was Suzie’s neighbor. Mr. Harvey killed Suzie.

__Write the correct relative pronoun in the blank: (who, whom, whose, that, which, when, where).__

1. Fenerman _ Suzie’s mother began to lean on was sympathetic to Abigail in her grief because he had also lost his own wife. 2. The man lived next door was the murderer. 3. The cornfield in _ Suzie was killed was just in back of her house. 4. Ruth was the girl Suzie grazed as her spirit left her body. 5. Mrs. Dewitt was the teacher Ray despised. 6. Ruth was the artist _ work Suzie thought was truly good. 7. It as in December _ Suzie was murdered. __8.__ Ray’s love note to Suzie, ________the cops found in one of her books, brought suspicion on Ray. 9. Suzie Salmon was one the girls _ was killed by George Harvey. __10. Mrs. Dewitt,__ taught English, was a boring teacher in Ray’s opinion. 11. Suzie’s father began to suspect something the time _ __he helped Mr. Harvey build a tent in the backyard. 12. Mr. Salmon felt guilty for the loss of his daughter,__ he loved very much. 13. Heaven was the place __Suzie met Holly. 14. Ruth had dreams about dead people__ had been murdered. 15. Detective Fenerman was the person to _ __Suzie’s father would tell everything about his suspicions. 16. Franny was the person__ Suzie could call mother if she wanted to. 17. Suzie’s father had resigned himself to sleeping in the upstairs room _ long ago had become his den. 18. Lindsay had to ask Buckley to do something twice, __she had never had to do before. 19. Ruana Singh had a son,__ _ was quite intelligent. 20. It was hard for Lindsay to play soccer on a field __was only twenty feet away from the place__ her sister was murdered. 21. Artie was a strange-looking guy pretended to be carrying around a syringe with embalming fluid. 22. The elbow _ the dog brought to the house, belonged to Suzie. 23. The Salmons _ __girl was killed were both sorry and furious. 24. Ray,__ _ __had a strong alibi, was never charged with a murder yet the suspicions of people in town never completely died down. 25. Heaven is a place__ _ __all souls live after life. 26. Mr. Harvey destroyed all the evidence__ __would prove that he was the killer. 27. Before Suzie died, Mr. Harvey stuffed the hat__ her mother had knitted for her in her mouth. 28. Suzie’s heaven, she had made up herself, smelled a little like skunk. 29. Abigail, _ was Suzie’s mother, was very sad and depressed. 30. The dog found an elbow __ belonged to Suzie.

Grammar Review

I. Use the correct tense of the indicated verb. 1. Mr. Harvey _______ (to kill) several people before he _______ (to murder) Suzie. 2. Suzie’s father ________ (to not suspect) Mr. Harvey of Suzie’s murder until the day when he _____ (to help) Harvey build the tent in the backyard. 3. Heaven _____(to be) different for different people, according to Suzie. 4. While Suzie’s mother _________ (to call) her out the back door, Mr. Harvey ________ (to rape) her. 5. After Mr. Harvey _______(to kill) cats and dogs in the neighborhood he ____ (to bury) their remains in the crawlspace under his house.

II. Write the correct form of the verb (gerunds and infinitives). 1. Lindsey tried ________ (to gather) some evidence _______ (to prove) that Mr. Harvey had killed her sister by ________ (to break into) his house. 2. Jack went over to Ray’s house _______ (to talk) to Ray in an attempt to remember Suzie. 3. Ruana Singh wanted ______ (to talk) to Ray before she left Jack talk to him. 4. Ruana Singh moved with a dancer’s carriage; she seemed _______(to deliberate) over the smallest movement of her body. 5. When the police questioned Ray and Ruana, the police expected her _____ (to respond) to their flattery like all attractive women.

III. Choose the correct preposition. 1. Suzie’s killer lived ______ the neighborhood. In fact, he lived _____ to Suzie’s family. 2. Mr. Harvey put Suzie’s bones ______ a safe, locked it with the combination lock and threw the safe _____ a sinkhole. 3. Suzie climbed ______ the scaffold in the theatre to sit with Ray during English class. 4. As Lindsay’s face flushed ____ on Earth when Samuel gave her the Christmas gift, Suzie flushed _____ in heaven. 5. to comfort Buckley as they went to Suzie’s memorial service, Lindsey reached ____ and grabbed him and squeezed him ____ her. 6. Suzie’s mother didn’t want to go the service but stood in the corner of the dining room and hid _____ her family. 7. Samuel and Ray brought Jack and Lindsey and Buckley ____ the circle of people at the memorial service. 8. Suzie’s father was moved when he looked _____ at the people there and realized that Suzie had been loved ______ people he didn’t even recognize. 9. In New York City Ruth was living _____ the Lower East Side.