4 Adjective Clauses:

Review and Expansion

The Fearless Princess

A Fairytale

Focus on Grammar 5
Part IV, Unit 11
By Ruth Luman, Gabriele Steiner, and BJ Wells
Copyright © 2006. Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
 Once upon a time,
there was a prince.

He decided to take
a walk in a dark
and scary forest.

All of a sudden,
a terrible storm
moved in…

…and the prince got

completely lost.
In the morning, a
terrifying dragon found
the prince. The prince Suddenly a knight in
became very, very scared. armor appeared from
behind a tree and
attacked the dragon.

Now, the terrible

dragon was afraid
and ran away.
When the prince
walked up to the
… and a beautiful
knight, the knight
princess stood in
took off his armor …
front of him.

She was strong

and smart and
sweet …
 … and she took
him to her castle
where they lived
happily ever
after.
 Definitions
Definitions
Can you complete these definitions?

An adjective describes or modifies

An adjective a noun
describes … or pronoun.

An adjective
An adjective clause isclause is a … clause
a dependent
that describes a noun or pronoun in a main clause.

Adjective
Adjective clause
clause pronouns
pronouns (or relative
(or relative pronouns)
are who,pronouns) are …and that.
whom, which,
 Relative
Relative Pronouns
Pronouns 11

Use who and that to refer to people.

This is the prince

who got lost.

Here is the knight

that the prince respects.

This is the princess who

saved the prince.
 Relative
Relative Pronouns
Pronouns 22

Use which and that to refer to things.

The knight holds the sword

which scared the dragon.

The dragon that scared the

prince spits fire.
 Relative
Relative Pronouns
Pronouns 33

That is less formal than who and which.

which

The knight holds the sword

that scared the dragon.

This is the princess

that saved the prince’s life.
Adjective
Adjective Clauses
Clauses 11

Here is the knight.

He attacked the dragon.

subject

Here is the knight who attacked the dragon.

noun
adjective clause
describes the noun
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Adjective Clauses
Clauses 22

Do you see the dragon?

It scared the prince.

subject

Do you see the dragon that scared the prince?

noun
adjective clause
describes the noun
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Adjective Clauses
Clauses 33

The dragon was dangerous.

The knight attacked the dragon.

object subject

The dragon that the knight attacked was very dangerous.

noun
adjective clause
describes the noun
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Adjective Clauses
Clauses 44

The prince was scared.

The princess saved him.

object subject

The prince whom the princess saved was scared.

noun
adjective clause
describes the noun
 Practice 1 Form sentences with
adjective clauses.

2 3
Who and
what
are these
1 fairytale 4
figures and
items?

5
 Using
Using Whose
Whose 11
Use whose to replace a possessive adjective.
An adjective clause with whose can modify people.

The princess was powerful.

They lived in her castle.

noun

The princess whose castle they lived in was powerful.

 Using
Using Whose
Whose 22
An adjective clause with whose can also
modify things.

The dragon ran away.

Its appearance terrified the prince.

noun

The dragon whose appearance terrified the prince ran away.

 Combine the sentences below.
Practice 2 Change the second sentence to an
adjective clause.

Thedragon
1. The dragon,iswhose fire and smoke
dangerous.
His fireeveryone,
scare and smokeis scare everyone.
dangerous.

2. The storm
storm,isthrough
frightening.
which the prince is
The prince is walking through the storm.
walking, is frightening.

3. The princess
princess,iswith
fearless.
whom the prince
The prince escapes with her.
escapes, is fearless.
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