adjective Clauses

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adjective clauses / Relative Clauses

• an adjective clauses is simply a group of words with a

subject and verb that provide a description.

• the clause starts with a pronoun such as who, whom, that,

or which or an adverb such as when, where and why
there are two kinds of clauses: independent and
dependent.
independent clauses are sentence because they express
a complete thought. in the second one, the subject is
implied. to explain the function of an adjective clause, we
will look at dependent clauses

just as the other dependent clauses, the adjective clause

does not express a complete thought. it does not need
commas separating it from the rest of the sentence if it
has essential information in it; that is if you need the
information it provide. if it gives additional information,
adjective clauses in action

adjective clauses do not change the basic meaning of the

sentence. in some case, when they provide more
information into a sentence, they need to be set off with
commas.

here are several examples of sentence with the adjective

clauses underlined :
*pizza, which most people love, is not very healthy
*the people whose names are on the list will go to camp
*grandpa remembers the old days when there was no
as a subject : who, that and which
as a object : whom, that,which, and who

the people whose name are on the list will go to jakarta

vegetables that is grown organically is expensive

student who are intellegent get good grades

hamburger, which most people love, is not very healthy