Identifying Adjective Clauses

1. Identifying Adjective Clauses

2. Adjective Clauses • Groups of words that act as adjectives to describe or identify a noun. • These clauses follow the noun and begin with relative pronouns. • noun relative pronoun • EX. The ESL class that Vicki teaches is on the Newark campus.

3. Your Turn! • What are identifying adjective clauses? • What do adjective clauses follow in the sentence? • What do adjective clauses begin with?

4. Adjective Clauses • Indentifying adjective clauses are really a combination of two shorter sentences about the same noun. • EX. The ESL class is on the Newark campus. + • Vicki teaches the ESL class. • The ESL class that Vicki teaches is on the Newark campus.

5. Relative Pronouns • Identifying adjective clauses begin with relative pronouns. • Who = person or people (sometimes animals) • Which = thing or things • That = thing or things • When = time or times • Where or in which = a place or places • Whose or in whose = possession

6. Your Turn! • What are adjective clauses a combination of? • Name several relative pronouns? • Which relative pronouns do we use for people? • Which relative pronouns do we use for things?

7. Adjective Clauses • The relative pronoun replaces the noun it describes; the noun is NOT repeated. • I saw the horse. + • The scientist was testing the horse. = • I saw the horse that the scientist was testing. • NOT I saw the horse that the scientist was testing the horse.

8. Your Turn! • Combine each pair of sentences into one sentence using an identifying adjective clause. • Clever Hans was trained by a retired school teacher. • The school teacher had taught science for many years. • The afternoon was cold and rainy. • That afternoon Clever Hans was ready to perform.

9. Your Turn! • P. 82 # 2 • P. 84

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