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Adjective Clause
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Personality

Adjective Clause

  1. Mary, whom I like a lot, is interesting.
  • An adjective clause can be after or inside the main clause:
  1. John is a man who works hard.
  • An adjective clause commonly begins with a relative pronoun:

An adjective clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or a pronoun in a main (independent) clause.

Clauses are either independent or dependent

A Clause is a group of words that contains at least one subject and a verb showing past, present, or future time.

Definition of Adjective Clauses

Subjects

  1. This is the car that is the nicest.
  1. Sam is the man who lives next door to me.
  • Objects
  1. There are many people who have taken this personality test.
  • The verb in an adjective clause agrees with the noun or pronoun that the clause modifies.
  • To refer to things, we use:
  • To refer to people, we use:
  • Subjects

Subjects and Objects in adjectives Clauses

Objects

  1. The test which I took was difficult.

1. Mr. Robbin was the person who I mentioned.

  • Objects
  • To refer to things, we use:
  • To refer to people, we use:
  • Subjects

Subjects and Objects in adjectives Clauses

  • Use when and that to introduce and adjective clause that modifies a noun of time.
  • You can replace where with which or that + preposition such as in, at, or for,
  • In this type of adjective clause, which/that can be omitted,
  • Use where to introduce an adjective clause that modifies a noun of place. Use where to replace adverb there.
  • Use whose to introduce an adjective clause that indicates possession. Use whose to replace his/her/its/their + noun
  • An adjective clause with whose can modify people or things.

Whose, where, when and that in Adjective Clauses

  • You can omit relative pronouns only in identifying adjective clauses. You cannot omit relative pronouns in nonidentifying adjective clauses.
  • Nonidentifying clause (also called nonessential) gives additional information that is not necessary to identify the noun or pronoun to which it refers.
  • Nonidentifying adjective clauses are enclosed in commas.
  • An identifying adjective clause (also called essential) is necessary to identify the noun that it refers to.
  • Identifying Adjective Clauses are not enclosed in commas.

Identifying and Nonidentifying Adjectives Clauses

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