Grammar Safari -- adjective clauses

Date: __________________________________
Base Camp: G-8 FLB
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Game to be Hunted: Relative Clauses and Phrases

Schedule of Points to be Awarded: (IF correctly identified, or DEDUCTED if incorrectly identified!)

1 point: that beginning with that anyone that answers the phone
who beginning with who the two men who are standing behind me
non-essential non-essential (non-restrictive) his wife, who lay beside him on the mat,..
2 points: which containing which the ligtening square which was the door
object relative pronoun is the object food that you never saw before
3 points: when containing when Feb.14,when we celebrate Valentines' Day
where containing where the place where the brush houses stopped
4 points: whom containing whom the professor whom I admire most
whose containing whose people whose children go to that school
preposition beginning with a preposition a pearl with which they could hire the Dr.
clause/idea modifying an entire clause/idea he ate first, which was a good idea
5 points: quantity+of beginning with an expression of quantity + of four men, all of whom were wearing hats

INSTRUCTIONS

With your partner, find, copy, and identify as many relative clauses as you can by the end of this class period. (Refer to the instructions you have been given for hunting "common" game, using the FIND function). Remember to open a word-processing program, and then click here when you are ready to begin your Safari.

  • COPY ENTIRE SENTENCES, and include the sources of the sentences.
  • UNDERLINE each entire RELATIVE CLAUSE and BOLD the NOUN PHRASE modified
  • INDICATE the points you have earned (see examples)

Examples

1. who = 1 point

    The man __who looked out at him__ was one of his own race. (The Pearl, John Steinbeck)

2. preposition + which + non-essential = 4+2+1 = 7 points
    "That," he said, "was civilized living" -- __by which he meant that on a small income he had been able to keep a mistress and eat in restaurants.__ (The Pearl, John Steinbeck)

3. that + whose = 1+4 = 5 points
    And on the beach the white and blue canoes __that came from Nayarit__ were drawn up, canoes preserved for generations by a hard shell-like waterproof plaster __whose making was a secret of the fishing people.__ (The Pearl, John Steinbeck)

TOTAL: 13 points


HAPPY HUNTING!

Ann Salzmann
Intensive English Institute
Division of English as an International Language
University of Illinois