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As the office of an adjective is to modify, the only use of an adjective clause is to limit or describe
some noun, or equivalent of a noun: consequently the adjective may modify any noun, or
equivalent of a noun, in the sentence.
The adjective clause may be introduced by the relative pronouns who, which, that, but, as;
sometimes by the conjunctions when, where, whither, whence, wherein, whereby, etc.
(1) The subject: "Mr. Shinoda, who teaches us English VI, never stops giving us drills."
(2) The object: "She showed me the man whom I met last night."
(3) The complement: "They sometimes call me Mr. Kiss, which is one of my favorite calls."
Pick out the adjective clauses, and tell what each one modifies; i.e., whether subject, object, etc.
1. There were passages that reminded me perhaps too much of Massillon.
2. I walked home with Calhoun, who said that the principles which I had avowed were just
and noble.
3. Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
4. In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other, it
seems a pity that we can only spend it once.
5. One of the maidens presented a silver cup, containing a rich mixture of wine and spice,
which Rowena tasted.
6. No man is reason or illumination, or that essence we were looking for.
7. In the moment when he ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an
effect.
8. Socrates took away all ignominy from the place, which could not be a prison whilst he
was there.
9. This is perhaps the reason why we so seldom hear ghosts except in our long-established
Dutch settlements.
10. From the moment you lose sight of the land you have left, all is vacancy.
11. Nature waited tranquilly for the hour to be struck when man should arrive.