Definition:
A dependent clause used as
an adjective within asentence. Also known as an adjectival clause or a relative clause.
An adjective
clause usually begins with a relative pronoun(which, that, who, whom, whose), a relative adverb (where, when, why), or a zero relative.
Observations:
"There
are two basic types of adjective clauses.
"The first type is the nonrestrictive or nonessential adjective clause. This clause simply gives extra information about the noun. In the sentence, 'My older brother's car, which he bought two years ago, has already needed many repairs,' the adjective clause, 'which he bought two years ago,' is nonrestrictive or nonessential. It provides extra information.
"The second type is the restrictive or essential adjective clause. It offers essential [information] and is needed to complete the sentence's thought. In the sentence, 'The room that you reserved for the meeting is not ready,' the adjective clause, 'that you reserved for the meeting,' is essential because it restricts which room."
(Jack Umstatter, Wiley, 2007)
"The first type is the nonrestrictive or nonessential adjective clause. This clause simply gives extra information about the noun. In the sentence, 'My older brother's car, which he bought two years ago, has already needed many repairs,' the adjective clause, 'which he bought two years ago,' is nonrestrictive or nonessential. It provides extra information.
"The second type is the restrictive or essential adjective clause. It offers essential [information] and is needed to complete the sentence's thought. In the sentence, 'The room that you reserved for the meeting is not ready,' the adjective clause, 'that you reserved for the meeting,' is essential because it restricts which room."
(Jack Umstatter, Wiley, 2007)
Examples:
·
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and
stand rapt in awe is as good as dead."
(Albert Einstein)
(Albert Einstein)
·
"Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy
the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on
those facts."
(Clarence Day)
(Clarence Day)
·
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can
find no common denominator, but amongthose whom I love, I can: all of
them make me laugh."
(W. H. Auden)
(W. H. Auden)
·
"Short, fat, and of a quiet disposition, he appeared
to spend a lot of money on really bad clothes, which hung about his
squat frame like skin on a shrunken toad."
(John le Carré, Call for the Dead, 1961)
(John le Carré, Call for the Dead, 1961)
·
"Love, which was once believed to contain the
Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior
pattern."
(James Thurber)
(James Thurber)
·
"The means by which we live have
outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has
outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
·
"The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money
on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose
idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly."
(Dave Barry)
(Dave Barry)
·
"On I trudged, past the carefully roped-off breeding
grounds of terns, which chirruped a warning overhead."
(Will Self, "A Real Cliff Hanger," 2008)
(Will Self, "A Real Cliff Hanger," 2008)
·
"My brother, who was normally quite an
intelligent human being, once invested in a booklet that promised
to teach him how to throw his voice."
(Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Broadway Books, 2006)
(Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Broadway Books, 2006)
·
"It has been well said that an author who
expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of
a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and
listens for the echo."
(P.G. Wodehouse, Cocktail Time, 1958)
(P.G. Wodehouse, Cocktail Time, 1958)
·
"Afterwards, in the dusty little corners where
London's secret servants drink together, there was argument about where the
Dolphin case history should really begin."
(John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, 1977)
(John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, 1977)
·
"The man who first abused his fellows
with swear words, instead of bashing their brains out with a club, should be counted among
those who laid the foundations of civilization."
(John Cohen, 1965)
(John Cohen, 1965)
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