Adjective adverb
Adjective adverb
Adjective adverb
An adverbial clause modifies the verb of a sentence: “I am going where no man has gone in a
generation.” The relative clause beginning with where describes the verb, am going. An adjectival clause
will modify a noun or pronoun that may be the subject or an object in a sentence: “The man who wore
the red hat was a magician,” or “The man was a magician whom many people recognized.” The subject
of the main clause in the first sentence is man, and it is modified by the clause beginning with who. The
following sentence has a direct object, magician, which is modified by the adjectival clause starting with
whom.
. It will begin with a relative pronoun (who, whose, whom, which, and that) or
a subordinate conjunction
(when and where). Those are the only words that can be used to introduce an adjective
clause. The introductory word will always rename the word that it follows and modifies
except when used with a preposition which will come between the introductory word and
the word it renames.
Examples:
The student whose hand was up gave the wrong answer
adjective clause .
A noun clause is a dependent clause that can be used in the same way as
a noun or pronoun
. It can be a subject, predicate nominative, direct object
, appositive, indirect object, or object of the preposition. Some of the words
that introduce noun clauses are that, whether, who, why, whom, what, how,
when, whoever, where, and whomever. To check if the dependent clause is
a noun clause, substitute the clause with the pronoun it or the proper form of the
pronouns he or she.
Example:
I know who said that. = I know it.
noun clause
Whoever said it is wrong. = He is wrong
noun clause .
Instructions: Find the adjective, adverb, or noun clauses in these sentences. If
it is an adjective or adverb clause, tell which word it modifies, and if it is a noun
clause tell how they are used (subject, predicate nominative, direct
object, appositive, indirect object, or object of the preposition).