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GRAMMAR JOURNAL -- Adjective Clauses:

(before you spend time collecting examples for this assignment, be sure to read the WARNINGS here! -- scroll down)
Collect the following (cut and paste them to this form, or attach clippings or photocopies to a hardcopy of this form to be handed in). Include enough of the context (at least the sentence before and after) to make the meaning clear. (Document the source. It CANNOT be an English grammar text,handbook, or dictionary!):

Three of the following kinds of adjective clauses or phrases:

    a. clause containing whom or whose
    indicate the subject, verb, and other important parts of the clause

    b. clause in which the relative pronoun has been omitted
    indicate what relative pronoun(s) have been omitted, and the subject, verb, and other parts of the clause

    c. clause beginning with an expression of quantity + of
    indicate the subject, verb, and other important parts of the clause

    d. adjective clause reduced to a phrase
    indicate what the full clause would have been, and then indicate the subject, verb, etc. of that clause

    e. adjective clause before the subject
    indicate what the full clause would have been, and then indicate the subject, verb, etc. of that clause

    f. non-restrictive adjective clause or phrase
    (indicate what the full clause would have been, and then) indicate the subject verb, etc. of that clause

For each: (see examples)
  • draw a box around or CAPITALIZE the entire adjective clause/phrase
  • underline the noun or pronoun being modified
  • indicate the parts of the clause as instructed above for each type of clause/phrase (directly above the words, inside your box, if you are doing this on paper, or as shown in the examples if you are using a computer.)
Example: d. adjective clause reduced to a phrase:
    One morning at __a place__ CALLED THE BUSY BEE, I was having coffee with a Chicago social reformer.
(from ________National Geographic, May 1991________) 		ANALYSIS:
noun: place
full clause: that/which is/was called the Busy Bee
WH/subject: that/which
verb: is/was called
Example: a. adjective clause containing whose:
    ..those WHOSE LACK OF EDUCATION WOULD ONCE HAVE RESTRICTED THEM TO FACTORY WORK must now resort to jobs in less lucrative ...
(from ________National Geographic, May 1991________) 		ANALYSIS:
pronoun: those
WH/PossessiveAdjective: whose
subject: lack (of education
verb: would (once) have restricted ..

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Ann Salzmann
Intensive English Institute
University of Illinois