Seminar Presentation Adjective Clauses Position of Adjective Clauses

Seminar Presentation Adjective Clauses. Position of Adjective Clauses. Punctuation of Adjective Clauses. Relative Pronouns as Subjects. Relative Pronouns as Objects t Faye Jiang Scott Jamieson Level 10 Writing English Language Certificate Program University of Guelph f in CONTACT US

Review Contents tips • Everyone passed the exam easily. • Everyone studied for the exam. Everyone who studied for the exam passed it easily.

Review Contents tips An adjective clause is used to describe a noun or pronoun: e. g. : Adjective Clause The car, which is red, belongs to Joy Liu. A relative pronoun is usually used to introduce an adjective clause: e. g. : Relative Pronoun Joy Liu, who is a Chinese student, lives in Guelph.

Review Contents tips Who, whom, whose, that refer to people Which, whose, that refer to animals and things When, where refer to a time or a place

review Contents tips Position of Adjective Clauses An adjective clause begins with a relative pronoun or relative adverb. (who, whom, whose, that, which, whose, that, when, where) I. An adjective clause comes right after its antecedent. e. g. : Scientists who study fossils are called paleontologists. The government awards large contracts each year to scientists who do research for the government.

review Contents tips 2. Other words may come between the antecedent and the adjective clause. e. g. : Recently, a friend of mine at the University of Toronto, who is majoring in electrical engineering, received a government grant to study airport runway lighting.

review Contents tips 3. An adjective clause comes at the end of the sentence. e. g. : The team won the championship, which shocked the opponents.

review Contents tips Punctuation of adjective clauses A. restrictive clauses (necessary, defining clauses) B. non-restrictive clauses (unnecessary, non-defining clauses)

review Contents tips A. Restrictive clauses (necessary, defining clauses) e. g. : The professor who teaches my biology class won a Nobel Prize two years ago. B. Non-restrictive clauses (unnecessary, non-defining clauses) e. g. : Professor Jones, who teaches my biology class, won a Nobel Prize two years ago.

review Contents tips Relative Pronouns as Subjects • To refer to people, use who and that as the subjects of verbs in adjective clauses. The lngs are the people who bought the house. Sam is the man that lives next door to me. • To refer to animals and things, use which and that as the subjects of verbs in adjective clauses. Math is the subject which is the easiest for me. This is the car that is nice. • A sentence with an adjective clause can be P 234 seen as a combination of two sentences. • That is less formal that which. • The verb in an adjective clause agrees with the noun or pronoun that the clause modifies. P 234

review Contents tips Relative Pronouns as Objects • To refer to people, use whom, who, that, and ø as the objects of verbs in adjective clauses. Mr. Pitkin, whom I mentioned yesterday is my boss. Mr. Pitkin was the person who I mentioned. Mr. Pitkin was the person that I mentioned. Mr. Pitkin was the person ø I mentioned. • To refer to animals and things, use which and that as the objects of verbs in adjective clauses. The test which I took was difficult. The test that I took was difficult. • That and who is less formal that whom. • You can sometimes omit the relative pronoun if it is an objective. • The verb in an adjective clause agrees with the subject of the clause, not with the object.

review Contents Tips √ A sentence with an adjective clause can be seen as a combination of two sentences. √ Take care not to use too many adjective clauses in a paragraph or essay. √ To avoid confusion, an adjective clause immediately comes right after its antecedent. √ The verb in an adjective clause agrees in number with its antecedent. √ You can sometimes omit the relative pronoun if it is an objective. √ A restrictive adjective clause is one that is necessary to identify the noun that it modifies. A nonrestrictive clause is one that is not necessary to identify the noun that it modifies. √ Do not use commas with restrictive clauses. The relative pronoun “that” is used in restrictive clauses only. “Which” is used in non-restrictive clauses only.

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