The+Lovely+Bones+Grammar+Exercises


 * Grammar Exercises**
 * Adjective Clauses**
 * Grammar Review**


 * 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**__

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 * 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.