Cambodia International cooperation Institue

College of Arts, Humanities & Languages

Academic year 2014-2015

Year 1, Semestre 2

Content

I. Definition

II. Relative pronoun and adjective

III. Punctuation of adjective clause

IV. kind of adjective clauses

V. Relative pronoun as object of preposition

An adjective clause is a dependent

clause that fuction as an adjective. That is ,

it modifies a noun ,or pronoun.

1 .Definition

Ex :student who study hard always get good

result.

(who study hard is it adjective clause .)

2 . Relative pronouns and adverb

An relative clause beging with arelative pronoun or relative adverb .

A relative pronoun replace a nounphrase or pronoun in the dependentclause.

• Relative pronoun

• Who

• Whom

• Whose

• That

Refer to the people

◦ Which

◦ Whose

◦ That Refer to the animal and things

• Relative adverb• When

• Where

• WhyRefer to a time or a place

3 . Kind of adjective clause

Relative pronoun as a subject

◦ A relative pronoun can be the subject of

its own clause.

Ex : kimhorng is my friend, who say about

the date of examanation.

The cat that live in my home is very

cleaver.

Relative pronoun as object

◦ A relative pronoun can be an object in its

own clause.

◦ Ex : The professor whom you should see is

chair of the English Department.

Mr Dara ,whom you meet in my office , is

an enginner.

The book that the profeesor translated was

written in Paris.

3 . Punctuation of adjective clause

Adjectivene clauses are either:

◦ A restrictive clause is necessary because its identifies

its antecedant for the reader. Do not use commas with

restrictive clause.

◦ A nonrestrictive clause is not necessary to identify its

antecedant ,its merly gives the reader some extra

information about it . Because you can omit a

nonrestrictive clause withouth loss of meaning

,separate it form the rest of the sentence with commas.

Restrictive (necessary): no commas

◦ The professor who teaches my biology class

won a Noble prize two years a go.

(The clause who teach my biology class is necessary

to indentify the professor.)

Non restrictive ( unnecessary) : commas

EX : Professor Jones, who teaches my biology class ,

won a Noble prize two years ago .

(The person who won a noble prize is indentify by his

name, so the clause who teaches my biology class is

extra,unnecssary unformation about professor Jones. If it

were omitted, we would still know which person won the

noble prize.)

4 . Relative pronouns as objects of

preposition

These adjective clauses are formed in two

ways :

◦ In the formal way

◦ In the informal way

In the formal way, the preposition and

relative pronoun are together at the

beginning of the clause .

◦ Ex : For whom I did a favor.

To which I sent my application.

Which whom I share a secret.

In which the gift was wrapped.

In the informal way,the pronoun comes at the

beginning and the preposition at the end of

the clause.

◦ Ex : whom I did a favor for

Which I sent my application to

Whom I shared a secret with

That the gift was wrapped in

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