Level 1 — Foundation · Clauses & the First Paragraph
Task 11: Combining Sentences with Relative Clauses
Write a short connected paragraph about a team or workplace, using who, which, that, and whose to merge choppy sentence pairs into fluent ones — each clause attached to exactly the noun it describes.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this task, you should be able to:
- Combine two related sentences into one using who/which/that/whose, inside a longer connected paragraph
- Attach each relative clause to the correct noun, not just the nearest word
- Keep a paragraph's ideas flowing without repeating a noun the clause already refers to
Introduction
Lesson 11 taught you to decode stacked clauses by finding a sentence's one backbone first, then attaching each clause to the noun it actually describes. Writing is the mirror image: instead of untangling someone else's clauses, you're going to build your own — taking short, separate facts and fusing them into one flowing paragraph, with every relative clause hooked onto exactly the right noun.
The Rule, for Writing
Core Concept
Find the noun that two facts share. Turn the second fact into a clause starting with who (people), which (things), that (people or things, especially in defining clauses), or whose (possession) — and drop it in immediately after that shared noun, not at the end of the sentence. Do this across several sentences in a row, and a paragraph stops sounding like a list of facts and starts sounding like one connected description.
Example
Two facts: "The manager approved the shipment. The manager works in logistics." Combined: "The manager who works in logistics approved the shipment." Now link it to the next fact: "She flagged one container that arrived without the correct paperwork." The clause sits right after the noun it describes each time — never detached at the end.
Your Turn
Your Turn
Describe a small team, office, or group of people you know — real or invented. Write 5-8 connected sentences, and use a relative clause (who, which, that, or whose) in at least four of them to add detail about a person, place, or thing you've just mentioned. Keep the sentences flowing as one paragraph, not a list of separate combined pairs.
Vocabulary in Context
colleaguenounneutral
a person you work with (সহকর্মী)
Often with a colleague from, work with colleagues, senior colleague
“A colleague from the finance team will join the review.”
flagverbneutral
to mark something as needing attention (ত্রুটি চিহ্নিত করা)
Often with flag an issue, flag a risk, flag for review
“The audit flagged three invoices for review.”
Model Answer
Show a model answer
Our shipping office has five people, and each one handles a different part of the process. The manager, who has worked in logistics for twelve years, approves every shipment before it leaves the yard. Beside her sits the driver whose truck broke down twice last month, which is why we now schedule a spare vehicle every Monday. The clerk who checks the paperwork flagged one container that arrived without the correct customs form. Luckily, the colleague who joined the team last month already knows the system that we use to track every delay. Together, they form a small team that keeps a genuinely complicated process running smoothly.
Self-Check
Self-Check
- Did you place each relative clause right after the noun it describes, not at the end of the sentence?
- Did you choose "who" for people, "which" for things, and "whose" for possession correctly?
- Did the sentences read as one connected paragraph, not a list of separately combined pairs?
- Did you avoid repeating the noun inside its own clause (e.g. "the manager who the manager approved")?
Next: Writing 12 — Conditionals & Hypothetical Thinking: writing a short paragraph where every sentence is grammatically about the present or future but logically about situations that aren't real, yet.