What is adjective clause | Adjective clauses | clauses | | Adjectival clauses | Adjectival clause
In this lecture you're going to learn about adjective clause and after watching this lecture you'll be able to understand adjective clause and answer the following questions.
1: What is an adjective clause?
2: How an adjective clause be identified in a
sentence ?
3: How can it be formed in a sentence?
4: What is Restrictive and Nonrestrictive clause?
Adjective clause:
An adjective clause is a group of words that contains a subject, verb and modifies a noun or pronoun.
Noun clause begins with following words:
Relative pronouns: who, whom, that, whose etc
Relative adverbs: why, when, where etc
Eg: I know the place where you live.
Eg: The book that you bought Yesterday is the first book of the author.
Eg: I remember the day when we met in the school.
Eg: John, who bought a new car, is a teacher.
Eg: The man who lives across the street is my uncle.
Eg: The book that is on the chair belongs to me.
Eg: The cat whom we were watching caught a mouse.
Eg: The boy who is reading a book is my brother.
Restrictive clause:
A restrictive clause restricts the meaning of the noun and provides necessary information about the noun.
Eg: The boy who is wearing a red shirt is my student.
Eg: Childern who eat vegetables are likely to be healthy.
Eg: Students whi don't attend class will fail the test.
Nonrestrictive clause:
A nonrestrictive clause adds additional information to a sentence. It is separated with comma.
Eg: Smith, who is my best friend, is coming today.
Eg: John, who is my English tutor, went to America.