The holiday season is upon us in much of the world. Christmas, Hanukkah, the Winter Solstice and many other special times are just ahead and that means one thing: relatives.

You know that your relatives have some special requirements, Aunt Judith cannot eat onions and Grandpa will not sit at the table but must eat while in his recliner in front of the television. The kids don't like green beans and if there is no pumpkin pie Uncle Louie will actually boycott dinner. (I am sure that in other parts of the world the relatives are just as weird as here in the U.S.!)

The house only has two bathrooms for 15 people and sometimes it seems like the only way to restore sanity is for the relatives to be gone!

The same is true on sentence correction. Relative Clauses are modifiers that have some very special requirements and sometimes the best way to make the sentence work is remove the Relative Clause altogether.

Now is the most appropriate time to look back at an article I wrote several months ago called "No relatives, No problems on Sentence Correction".

The article is here... https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2012/05/ ... correction

Try to enjoy your relatives during this holiday season and remember if they get to be too much you can slip away and do a few sentence correction problems to get ready for the real big day: Test Day!