Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns, giving a description or more information. An adjective clause is simply a group of words with a subject and a verb that provide a description. The clause starts with a pronoun such as who, whom, that, or which or an adverb such as when, where and why.
Adjective Clauses In Action
Adjective clauses do not change the basic meaning of the sentence. In some cases, when they provide more information into a sentence, they need to be set off with commas.
Adjective clause is a clause that functions as a adjective. As we have seen, adjectives are words that describe nouns. Thus, it also serves as an adjective clause, which gives details on the noun.
Adjective clauses beginning with relative pronoun or relative adverb.
Adjective clauses beginning with relative pronoun or relative adverb.
- Adjective clause with relative pronoun
Example:
The Man Who is sitting over there is my father.
The book the which you bought yesterday is very interesting.
This is the place that i visited some years ago.
Mr. Tarno Whose son is my friend is presenting a paper in a seminar. - Adjective adverb clause with a relative
Example:
This is the reason why she did it.
The time when the plane takes off and lands will be changed soon.
Pematangsiantar is the place where I was born.
- Adjective clause is divided into two kinds, namely:
Important (defining) adjective clause, adjective clause is that is important information for the antecedent.
Example : That Bob's brother (WHO) lives in New York is an actor.
Meaning : Bob has more than one brother. - Unimportant (undefining) adjective clause, adjective clause is that the information that is important for the antecedent.
Example : Bob's brother, WHO lives in New York is an actor.
Meaning : Bob has only one brother.
aExample of Adjective Clausemp
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
(W. H. Auden) - "Short, fat, and of a quiet disposition, he appeared to spend a lot of money on really bad clothes, which hung about his squat frame like skin on a shrunken toad."
(John le Carré, Call for the Dead, 1961) - "Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern."
(James Thurber) - "The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
(Martin Luther King, Jr.) - "The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly."
(Dave Barry) - "On I trudged, past the carefully roped-off breeding grounds of terns, which chirruped a warning overhead."
(Will Self, "A Real Cliff Hanger," 2008) - "The man that invented the cuckoo clock is no more."
(Mark Twain) - "Afterwards, in the dusty little corners where London's secret servants drink together, there was argument about where the Dolphin case history should really begin."
(John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, 1977) - "The man who first abused his fellows with swear words, instead of bashing their brains out with a club, should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization."
(John Cohen, 1965)
Example a part of article containing the adjective clauses (underline,bold,italic)
Computers and Education in America
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Computers do allow students to expand their learning beyond the classroom, but the distance learning is not a utopia. Some businesses, such as Hewlett Packard, do have mentoring programs with children in the schools, but those mentoring programs are not available to all students. Distance learning has always been a dream of administrators, eager to figure out a cheaper way to deliver education. They think that little Eva and Johnny are going to learn about Japanese culture or science or algebra in the evening when they could be talking with their friends on the phone or watching television. As education critic Neil Postman points out, these administrators are not imagining a new technology but a new kind of child: "In [the administrator's] vision, there is a confident and typical sense of unreality. Little Eva can't sleep, so she decides to learn a little algebra? Where does little Eva come from? Mars?" Only students from some distant planet would prefer to stick their nose in a computer rather than watch TV or go to school and be with their friends.
Their short attention spans, their unwillingness to explore subjects in depth, their poor reading and evaluation skills. Computers also tend to isolate students, to turn them into computer geeks who think cyberspace is actually real. Some students have found they have a serious and addictive case of "Webaholism," where they spend hours and hours on the computer at the expense of their family and friends. Unfortunately, computers tend to separate, not socialize students. Finally, we need to think about who has the most to gain or lose from computers in the schools.
Are administrators getting more students "taught" for less money? Are big companies training a force of computer worker bees to run their businesses? Will corporate CEO's use technology to isolate and control their employees? Like all cults, this one has the intention of enlisting mindless allegiance and acquiescence. People who have no clear idea of what they mean by information or why they should want so much of it are nonetheless prepared to believe that we live in an Information Age, which makes every computer around us what the relics of the True Cross were in the Age of Faith: emblems of salvation.
Questions and Answers of the excercises
- Q : I talked to the woman she was sitting next to me
A : I talked to the woman who was sitting next to me - Q : I have a class it begins at 08.00 Am
A : I have a class which begins at 08.00 Am - Q : The man called the police his car was stolen
A : The man whose car was stolen called the police - Q : The building is very old he lives there
A : The building where he lives is very old - Q : The woman was ms Silvy I saw her
A : The woman whom I saw was ms Silvy
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