Adjective Clause

** Adjective/Relative Clause:

>An adjective clause usually comes after the noun it modifies and is made up of several words which, like all clauses, will include a subject and a verb.

  • My dog, who usually refuses to go near the water, dived in the canal to chase a water vole. (In this example, the clause acts like an adjective.)
  • The carpets which you bought last year have gone moldy.
  • The film which you recommended scared the kids half to death.
  • The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.
  • Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

>An adjective clause will have the following three traits:

  • It will start with a relative pronoun (who, whom, whose, that, or which) or a relative adverb (when, where, or why)
  • It will have a subject and a verb.
  • It will tell us something about the noun.

>Look at the traits in this example:

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>Quite often, the relative pronoun is the subject of the clause.

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