Adjective or
Relative Clauses
Adjective clause is also called the
Relative Clause is part of the sentence (clause) that provide information on
the person or thing that preceded it. Relative terms similar to Clause
Adjective Clause. Called Adjective Clause because he explains things or people
that preceded it. Called Relative Clause because he connects (to relate) the
object or the person behind the phrase. Relative clause begins with the
conjunctive who, whom, Whose, which, that, with the following functions
Who : describe
the person as a subject
Whom : people
describe it as an object (to replace me, you, us, him, her,
them, it)
Whose : describe
the person as the owner (replacing my, your, our, his, her, Their,
its)
Which :
describes the object as subject and object
That explains a person or thing as either subject or
object
Tricks that can be used to solve a problem as follows:
Thus the answers to the questions above are: 1. who,
2. whom, 3. Whose, and 4. which, 5. Whom.
Example :
Example a part of article containing the adjective
clause (underline) :
Computers and Education in America
Computers do allow students to
expand their learning beyond the classroom, but the distance learning is not a
utopia. Some businesses, such as Hewlett Packard, do have mentoring programs
with children in the schools, but those mentoring programs are not available to
all students. Distance learning has always been a dream of administrators,
eager to figure out a cheaper way to deliver education. They think that little
Eva and Johnny are going to learn about Japanese culture or science or algebra
in the evening when they could be talking with their friends on the phone or
watching television. As education critic Neil Postman points out, these
administrators are not imagining a new technology but a new kind of child:
"In [the administrator's] vision, there is a confident and typical sense
of unreality. Little Eva can't sleep, so she decides to learn a little algebra?
Where does little Eva come from? Mars?" Only students from some
distant planet would prefer to stick their nose in a computer rather than watch
TV or go to school and be with their friends.
Their short attention spans, their
unwillingness to explore subjects in depth, their poor reading and evaluation
skills. Computers also tend to isolate students, to turn them into computer
geeks who think cyberspace is actually real. Some students have found
they have a serious and addictive case of "Webaholism," where they
spend hours and hours on the computer at the expense of their family and
friends. Unfortunately, computers tend to separate, not socialize students. Finally,
we need to think about who has the most to gain or lose from computers in the
schools. Are administrators getting more students "taught" for less
money? Are big companies training a force of computer worker bees to run their
businesses? Will corporate CEO's use technology to isolate and control their
employees?
Like all cults, this one has the
intention of enlisting mindless allegiance and acquiescence. People who
have no clear idea of what they mean by information or why they should
want so much of it are nonetheless prepared to believe that we live in an
Information Age, which makes every computer around us what the relics of
the True Cross were in the Age of Faith: emblems of salvation.
--Dudley Erskine Devlin--
Questions and Answers of the excercises :
1. I talked to the woman she was sitting next to
me
I talked to the woman who was
sitting next to me
2. I have a class it begins at 08.00 Am
I have a class which begins at
08.00 Am
3. The man called the police his car was stolen
The man whose car was stolen called the
police
4. The building is very old he lives there
The building where he lives is very old
5. The woman was ms Silvy I saw her
The woman whom I saw was ms Silvy
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