Relative Clauses - Exercises 1. Re-write the sentences so that they have the same meaning as the original. You must use a relative pronoun. a. I bought a house. It was advertised in the local paper. b. Mary works in our office. Her husband is a plastic surgeon. c. Venice is a wonderful place. We spent our last holiday there. d. He showed us how to create a computer-based game. It was very interesting. e. I’ve just finished reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
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is a subject where / that I’m very interested in. 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) Object Relative Pronouns 1 13) I keep the book next to my bed‚ when / where I read it every night. 14) I loved the book who / that you gave me. 13) 14) Combine each pair of sentences into one sentence with an independent clause and a dependent adjective clause. Make the second sentence the dependent clause. 15) The man has agreed to take better control of his animals. His dogs have been barking all night
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ADJECTIVE CLAUSES/ Relative Clauses An adjective clause is a subordinate (dependent)` clause used as an adjective. Like single-word adjectives‚ adjective clauses describe and modify nouns. The following relative pronouns introduce adjective clauses. Who refers only to persons. The man is a police officer. He lives next door. The man who lives next door is a police officer. Whom is the objective form of who and refers only to persons. He is one police officer. I respect him very much
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REDUCED RELATIVE CLAUSES Reduced relative clauses are participle clauses which follow a noun. They are like relative clauses‚ but with the relative pronoun and auxiliary verb (if there is one) left out. Because they modify nouns‚ (reduced) relative clauses are occasionally referred to as adjective clauses. Reduced relative clauses are used most often instead of defining relative clauses‚ which are what we’ll be mainly looking at. Reduced Relative Clauses You may remove the relative pronoun
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Exercise on Relative Clauses (Contact clauses) 1 Relative clauses - defining or non-defining? Study the situations and then decide whether the following relative clauses are defining or non-defining. defining – no commas non-defining – commas 1. I have three brothers. [pic] My brother who lives in Sidney came to see me last month. [pic] My brother‚ who lives in Sidney‚ came to see me last month. 2. I have one sister. [pic] My sister who is 25 years old spent her holiday
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sentences are sentences that have several parts‚ each with a verb‚ and these parts are joined by ‘joining words’ (连词). For example‚ here are two simple sentences: “I know a man. He has five children.” If you join these two sentences by using the relative pronoun (联系代名词) ‘who’‚ it now becomes a complex sentence: “I know a man who has five children.” (By the way‚ ‘who’ is not pronounced with extra word stress here. You only stress this word when it means ‘ 谁?’‚ which is not the case here.) [pic]
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Word and Sentence Structure (1LIN404) The language which I will be using to analyse is Turkish. English translation- “The neighbour’s daughter has saved the black cat that the dogs bit in her garden.” Turkish translation – “Koms’nun kizi bahcesindeki kopeklerin isirdigi siyah kediyi kurtardi.” Komsu – neighbour’s ‚ this is a possession Kizi = daughter Bahce – sindeki = in her garden Kopeklerin = dog’s. Kopek is singular when ler is added to the word it becomes plural the in at the end
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as (comparative clause) 2. while Rebecca is still partying day and night (adverbial clause) - (contrast) 3. unless you’ve got a Bachelor Degree (adverbial clause) - ( condition) 4. that the misunderstanding was cleaned up (nominal clause) - (complement of adjective) 5. What the consequence would be (nominal clause) – (subject) 6. what he did to bully his peers in the playground (nominal clause) – (direct object) 7. what made Jack change his mind suddenly (nominal clause) - (subject complement)
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word and its modifier(s) and the group of words under discussion consists of the phrase and clause of noun called nominal group. Since the position of modification after the head is often misunderstood as complementation‚ the discussion focuses more on the post-modification in the nominal groups in order to resolve the ambiguity. Based on the discussion‚ the head noun can be post-modified by the relative clause‚ the prepositional phrases‚ the adjectival phrases‚ the adverbial phrases‚ and the appositives
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Lesson Plan in Grade 7 English Submitted to: Prof. Mary Ann Constantino Submitted by: Aguelo‚ Amor Joy S. Pinongpong‚ Cheryl T. Content Standard(s) The learner understands that reading is a psycholinguistic guessing game which utilizes visual and non-visual information in order to confirm‚ modify and monitor one’s comprehension. Performance Standard(s) The learner □ activates prior knowledge conceptually related to text and establishes a purpose from reading □ will be self-aware
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