Adjective or Relative Clauses
Adjective clause is also called the Relative Clause is part of the sentence (clause) that provide information on the person or thing that preceded it. Relative terms similar to Clause Adjective Clause. Called Adjective Clause because he explains things or people that preceded it. Called Relative Clause because he connects (to relate) the object or the person behind the phrase. Relative clause begins with the conjunctive who, whom, Whose, which, that, with the following functions
Who : describe the person as a subject
Whom : people describe it as an object (to replace me, you, us, him, her,
them, it)
Whose : describe the person as the owner (replacing my, your, our, his, her, Their,
its)
Which : describes the object as subject and object
That explains a person or thing as either subject or object
Tricks that can be used to solve a problem as follows:
- If the word before the points are showing a human, and after the points are verbs or auxiliary verbs like to be or modals, or auxiliary 'do' (is, is not, do, do, will, won 't, can, can not, was, was not, etc.), then the contents of the dots is who.
- If the word before the points are showing a human, or humans is followed by a preposition like with, to, by, from, etc. and after the points are the subject (noun, the name of the person, or pronouns: I, you, we she , he, it, etc.), then the contents of the dots is whom.
- If the word before the dots are showing people, or animals, and said after the dots is a noun, then the contents of those points is Whose.
- If the dots before the word is a noun that indicates non-human, then the contents of the points is which.
Thus the answers to the questions above are: 1. who, 2. whom, 3. Whose, and 4. which, 5. Whom.
Example :
- Fast food, which most people love, is not very healthy.
- Students who are keen to learn get good grades.
- You know someone whose grandfather served in World War II.
- My father and me waiting all night outside the Apple store are trying to purchase a new iPhone.
- Fruit that is grown organically is expensive.
Example a part of article containing the adjective clause (underline) :
Computers and Education in America
Computers do allow students to expand their learning beyond the classroom, but the distance learning is not a utopia. Some businesses, such as Hewlett Packard, do have mentoring programs with children in the schools, but those mentoring programs are not available to all students. Distance learning has always been a dream of administrators, eager to figure out a cheaper way to deliver education. They think that little Eva and Johnny are going to learn about Japanese culture or science or algebra in the evening when they could be talking with their friends on the phone or watching television. As education critic Neil Postman points out, these administrators are not imagining a new technology but a new kind of child: "In [the administrator's] vision, there is a confident and typical sense of unreality. Little Eva can't sleep, so she decides to learn a little algebra? Where does little Eva come from? Mars?" Only students from some distant planet would prefer to stick their nose in a computer rather than watch TV or go to school and be with their friends.
Their short attention spans, their unwillingness to explore subjects in depth, their poor reading and evaluation skills. Computers also tend to isolate students, to turn them into computer geeks who think cyberspace is actually real. Some students have found they have a serious and addictive case of "Webaholism," where they spend hours and hours on the computer at the expense of their family and friends. Unfortunately, computers tend to separate, not socialize students. Finally, we need to think about who has the most to gain or lose from computers in the schools. Are administrators getting more students "taught" for less money? Are big companies training a force of computer worker bees to run their businesses? Will corporate CEO's use technology to isolate and control their employees?
Like all cults, this one has the intention of enlisting mindless allegiance and acquiescence. Peoplewho have no clear idea of what they mean by information or why they should want so much of it are nonetheless prepared to believe that we live in an Information Age, which makes every computer around us what the relics of the True Cross were in the Age of Faith: emblems of salvation.
--Dudley Erskine Devlin--
Questions and Answers of the excercises :
1. I talked to the woman she was sitting next to me
I talked to the woman who was sitting next to me
2. I have a class it begins at 08.00 Am
I have a class which begins at 08.00 Am
3. The man called the police his car was stolen
The man whose car was stolen called the police
4. The building is very old he lives there
The building where he lives is very old
5. The woman was ms Silvy I saw her
The woman whom I saw was ms Silvy
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