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Exercise 1

In the following sentences, set off relative pronouns with brackets, put parentheses around the relative clause, and circle the noun that is being modified.

1. Edouard Manet, who was an attractive, well-dressed, charming Parisian, was not the stereotypical bohemian artist who starved in a garret.
2. The painters with whom Manet studied were traditionalists who usually rounded figures in paintings to give them a realistic sculptural quality.
3. Manet, whose art contrasted sharply with the art of his contemporaries, painted flat figures in jewel-bright colors without shadows or shading.
4. This approach, which left an “unfinished” look, tried to capture what the eye momentarily saw.
5. Manet’s painting that most shocked the French people was Luncheon in the Grass, which pictured a nude woman at a picnic with two fully dressed men.
6. In Manet’s time, paintings were usually judged by a prestigious Parisian art establishment that was known as the Salon.
7. The judges of the Salon, who held an annual showcase of the Academy of Fine Arts, only included work that conformed to their standards.
8. The Salon always rejected Manet’s paintings, which were full of color.
9. Now his paintings, which were so badly received during his lifetime, hang in the Louvre and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
   

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