Adjective Clauses -- Practice

ADJECTIVE CLAUSE BASICS * ANALYZING ADJECTIVE CLAUSES * LIMERICKS

I. Look through the class's limericks and these articles about Edward Lear and limericks for adjective clauses, and put them in the adjective clause chart.

II. After reading the Lear and Limerick articles, complete each of the following sentences, according to the instructions given:

1. COMPLETE THE SENTENCE
2. PUNCTUATE IT
3. Be prepared to discuss: WHAT VARIATIONS ARE POSSIBLE?
  • different relative pronouns?
  • reduce to phrase?
  • omit relative pronoun?
  • move preposition?
  • move phrase?

1. Jeremiah Lear
2. The sisters
3. The paintings of birds
4. Lord Stanley
5. He lived for five years at Knowsley Hall
6. Lord Stanley was the man
7. Lord Stanley had several grandchildren
8. 1846 was the year
9 "Derry Down Derry" was the name
10. A Book of Nonsense was the first book
11. San Remo is the town in Italy
12. 1888 was the year
13. A limerick is a poem
14. G. Legman is
15. "There was an Old Man of Tobago" was
16. Lear was not the first person
17. Lear's drawing style
18. A limerick has five lines
19. Lear wrote hundreds of limericks
20. A. Beardsley was
21. Limerick is the Irish city
22. Limericks


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Ann Salzmann
Intensive English Institute
University of Illinois