clause(ii)- adjective clause
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Clause(II)!Adjective clauses &
Adverb clausesTonny Kuo
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Week Topics Assignments
10 Clauses (I) (6) Maurer: Units 10, 11
11 Clauses (II) (7) Maurer: Units 12, 13, 19,and 20
12 Discussion on pedagogical grammar Quiz 3
13 Passive/Gerunds and Infinitives (8) Maurer: Units 14, 15, 16, and 17
14 Modals/Conditional sentences (9) Maurer: Units 4, 5, 22, and 23
15 Grammar activities presentation
16 Grammar activities presentation
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Learning Objectives• At the end of this course, students will be able
1. to review the basic concepts of noun clauses and define related terms
2. to identify and classify adjective clauses
3. to distinguish identifying/non-identifying clauses
4. to transcribe adjective clauses to sentences, and transcribe sentences to adjective clauses
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Task 1: Bingo review1. Form a group of 4 or 5, and then sit with your
group members.
2. Raise your hand when you are able to answer the question.
3. T will pick anyone from your group to answer. If you make it correct, you get 10 points.
4. The group with highest points wins the game.
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what is “reporting
verb”?
Make “Tonny is a wise senior”
into noun clause.
what is “clause”?
what is “direct speech”
what is “dependent
clause”
What are 3 types of noun
clause?
Give 1 example of “adverb
clause”
(T/F) We can omit if in
embedded ques.
Make “Was he the top student in class?” into noun clause.
what is “indirect speech”
(T/F) A ques. that is changed to a N
cl. is called embedded ques.
Make “What’s your favorite subject?” into noun clause
what is “sentence”?
Function of noun clause
give 2 examples of “reporting
verbs”
Give 1 example of “adjective
clause”
give 1 sentence with reporting
verb
(T/F) Must use the fact that as subordinator after a prep.
what is “subordinate
clause”
what should we notice when
changing di. to imdi. speech?
what is “phrase”?
(T/F) We can omit that when introducing an O. noun clause
What are 3 types of clause?
what is “noun clause”
(T/F) We don’t use if to intro. a
S. N. cl.
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Task 2: Sentences making1. Completing the sentence with at least one
adjective that best describes your personality: “I’am a person who is ___________.”
2. Completing the sentences with daily events/habits best describe your group members: “____ a person who ___________.”
3. Share your sentences to the class.
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Task 3: Video Discussion1. What is “adjective clause”?
2. What’s the function of “adjective clause”?
3. What are the patterns of “adjective clause”?
4. What are subordinators of “adjective clause”?
5. What are the difference between “essential/non-essential adjective clause”?
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Adjective Clause• Definition/Function/Place
• Relative Pronoun- refer to people: who, whom, that - refer to things: which, that - The verb in an adjective clause agrees with the noun/pronoun that the clause modifies.
• Role of relative pronoun - as subject: who, which, that- as object: who(m), which, that, omitted
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Adjective Clause• Use “whose to indicate possession”
- whose + noun to replace his/her/its/their + noun
• Relative adverb:- where: to introduce an adjective clause that modify a noun of place. where replaces there - when/that: to introduce an adjective clause that modify a noun of time. Omission of when/that is informal.
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Adjective ClauseIdentifying/Essential clause Non-identifying/Non-essential clause
used to distinguish one person or thing from another
used to add extra information but does not distinguish one person or thing from
another
e.g. The man who delivers the mail is friendly.
e.g. The man, who delivers the mail, is friendly.
You can omit relative pronoun only in identifying clause.
Don’t use that as a relative pronoun in a non-identifying clause.
e.g. The man (who/whom) you met on Friday is Tarik.
e.g. The GEPT test, which I took for along time ago, has proved to be
accurate.
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Task 4: Group discussion• Stay in your group, and discuss the following exercises in
textbook:
1. Exercise 1: Discover the grammar (pp. 202-203)
2. Exercise 3: Identifying/Non-identifying clauses (p. 204)
3. Exercise 5: Editing (p. 206)
• Check your answers with your partners.
• State your questions.
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Adjective Clause with Prep.• The relative pronouns who(m), which, that, and whose
after a noun can be used as objects of prepositions in adjective clauses.- sentence with the prep. at the beginning of the clause is formal.- A prep. cannot come at the beginning in clause with that.- relative pronouns as object can be omitted: who(m), which, that
• Bill is the man who/whom/that/* I spoke to. = Bill is the man to whom I spoke to. (formal)
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Adjective Clause with Prep.• p. 214: adjective clause with quantifier
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Adjective Clause with Prep.• p. 214: adjective clause with noun
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Adjective Phrases• We sometimes shorten adjective clauses to
adjective phrases with same meanings.- relative pronoun serves as subject only - a phrase is a group of words without subject and verb
• Steps: p. 216 1. Deleting relative pronoun 2-1. Deleting be verb or 2-2. Changing verb into its -ing form* check commas
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Adjective Phrases
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Task 5: Group discussion• Stay in your group, and discuss the following
exercises in textbook:
1. Exercise 1: Discover the grammar (p. 217)
2. Exercise 3: Adjective Phrases (p. 219)
• Check your answers with your partners.
• State your questions.
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Adverb Clause• Complex sentence: sentences containing both an
independent clause and a dependent clause - main idea: independent clause
• Adverb clause are dependent clauses that indicate how, when, where, why, or under what conditions things happen.- subordinators = subordinating conjunctions
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Adverb Clause
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Adverb Clause• Types: p. 326
- adverb clause of time - adverb clause of place - adverb clause of reason - adverb clause of condition - adverb clause of contrast
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Assignment 11/25• Text book:
- Unit 12 Review (p. 210) - Unit 13 Review (p. 228) - Unit 19 Review (p. 339) - Unit 20 Review (p. 357)
• Quiz: - adjective clause - adverb clause
See you next week!