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Adjective Clauses: Review and Expansion 4 Focus on Grammar 5 Part IV, Unit 11 By Ruth Luman, Gabriele Steiner, and BJ Wells Copyright © 2006. Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. The Fearless Princess A Fairytale
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Adjective Clauses: Review and Expansion4
Focus on Grammar 5Part IV, Unit 11By Ruth Luman, Gabriele Steiner, and BJ WellsCopyright © 2006. Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
The Fearless PrincessA Fairytale
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 became very, very scared.
Suddenly a knight in 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 knight, the knight took off his armor …
… and a beautiful princess stood in front of him.
She was strong and smart and sweet …
… and she took him to her castle
where they lived happily ever after.
Can you complete these definitions?
An adjective clause is a …
Adjective clause pronouns (or relative pronouns) are …
An adjective describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.
An adjective clause is a dependent clause that describes a noun or pronoun in a main clause.
Adjective clause pronouns (or relative pronouns) are who, whom, which, and that.
Definitions
An adjective describes …
This is the prince whowho got lost.
Here is the knight thatthat the prince respects.
This is the princess whowho saved the prince.
Relative Pronouns 1
UseUse who who and that that to refer to people.
The knight holds the sword whichwhich scared the dragon.
The dragon thatthat scared the prince spits fire.
Relative Pronouns 2
UseUse which which and that to refer to things.
This is the princess thatthat saved the prince’s life.
Relative Pronouns 3
The knight holds the sword thatthat scared the dragon.
ThatThat is less formal than whowho and whichwhich.
He attacked the dragon.
Here is the knight.
nounadjective clause
describes the noun
Adjective Clauses 1
subject
Here is the knight who attacked the dragon.
Do you see the dragon that scared the prince?
It scared the prince.
Do you see the dragon?
noun
Adjective Clauses 2
adjective clause describes the noun
subject
The dragon was dangerous. The knight attacked the
dragon.
The dragon that the knight attacked was very dangerous.
nounadjective clause
describes the noun
Adjective Clauses 3
subjectobject
The prince was scared. The princess saved
him.
The prince whom the princess saved was scared.
nounadjective clause
describes the noun
Adjective Clauses 4
subjectobject
Who and what
are these fairytale
figures and items?
Form sentences with adjective clauses.Practice 1
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They lived in her castle.
The princess was powerful.
The princess whose castle they lived in was powerful.
noun
Using Whose 1
UseUse whose toto replace a possessive adjective.replace a possessive adjective. An adjective clause with whose can modify people.can modify people.
Its appearance terrified the prince.
The dragon whose appearance terrified the prince ran away.
noun
Using Whose 2
An adjective clause with whosewhose can also modify things.
The dragon ran away.
1. The dragon is dangerous. His fire and smoke scare everyone.
Practice 2Combine the sentences below. Change the second sentence to an adjective clause.
2. The storm is frightening. The prince is walking through the storm.The storm, through whichthrough which the prince is
walking, is frightening.
3. The princess is fearless. The prince escapes with her.The princess, with whomwith whom the prince
escapes, is fearless.
The dragon, whosewhose fire and smoke
scare everyone, is dangerous.
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