adjactive clause

       

     ‘’Adjective clause’’

     

         At a certain point in your writing in English, you should be able to identify every sentence you write as simple, compound, or complex.  Two additional structures, adjective clauses and appositives, will give you a much greater sentence variety within which to accomplish your writing objectives.  This page contains a small amount of information about adjective clauses along with just ten very difficult exercises.  First, we will define what adjective clauses are and how they work.

        An adjective clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun.  It is possible to combine the following two sentences to form one sentence containing an adjective clause:

ð  A. he paid the man

b. who had done the work

·         He paid the man who had done the work

ð  A. I help the old lady

b. the old lady lives next to me

·         I help the old lady who lives next

ð  A. deni is a handsome boy

b. I met deni in the party last night

·         Deni whom I met in the party last night is a handsome boy

ð  A. the boy is a waiter not whom

b. he paid the money to the boy

·         The boy to whom he paid the money is a waiter

ð  A. the man confessted to the crime

b. the man was brought to the police station

·         The man who was brought to the police station confessted to the crime