Adjective Clause
diana.valle
Created on September 23, 2022
Over 30 million people build interactive content in Genially.
Check out what others have designed:
QUOTE OF THE WEEK ACTIVITY - 10 WEEKS
Presentation
MASTER'S THESIS ENGLISH
Presentation
SPANISH: PARTES DE LA CASA WITH REVIEW
Presentation
PRIVATE TOUR IN SÃO PAULO
Presentation
SUMMER ZINE 2018
Presentation
RACISM AND HEALTHCARE
Presentation
FACTS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
Presentation
Transcript
Personality
Adjective Clause
- Mary, whom I like a lot, is interesting.
- An adjective clause can be after or inside the main clause:
- 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
- This is the car that is the nicest.
- Sam is the man who lives next door to me.
- Objects
- 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
- 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
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
Lorem ipsum
+ info