Adjective clause
a relative clause that modifies a noun or pronoun, as the clause that I told you about in This is the book that I told you about and who saw us in It was she who saw us.
Historical Examples
Substitute (if possible) an adjective clause for each adjective phrase in the sentences you have just written.
An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises George Lyman Kittredge
An adjective clause may be introduced by the relative pronouns, who, which or that.
Plain English Marian Wharton
Substitute for each an adjective phrase; an adjective clause ( 467468).
An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises George Lyman Kittredge
A dependent clause in a complex sentence may also be an adjective clause.
Plain English Marian Wharton
If it is used as an adjective,—if it modifies a noun or pronoun,—it is an adjective clause.
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An adjective clause may modify any noun or any word used as a noun in the sentence.
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Here gentleman (a complement in the main clause) is modified by the adjective clause who was born in the village (a).
An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises George Lyman Kittredge
Whom I wanted is an adjective clause modifying the noun man.
Plain English Marian Wharton
We are sometimes confused as to which relative pronoun to use in introducing an adjective clause.
Plain English Marian Wharton
The simple subject may be modified by an adjective, an adjective phrase, or an adjective clause.
An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises George Lyman Kittredge
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a group of words including an adjective and its complements or modifiers that functions as an adjective, as too openly critical in His latest article is too openly critical of the administration. Historical Examples The adjective phrase may consist of an infinitive with or without the preposition about ( 319). An Advanced English Grammar with […]
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a pronoun used as an adjective, as his in His dinner is ready. Historical Examples Others is a compound pronoun, including both an adjective pronoun and a noun, and is equivalent to other men. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham A good deal of speculation has been expended on the word means in connection […]
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Grammar. any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying, as wise in a wise grandmother, or perfect in a perfect score, or handsome in He is extremely handsome. Other terms, as numbers (one cup; twelve months), certain demonstrative pronouns […]
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Grammar. any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing a particular quality of the word they are modifying, as wise in a wise grandmother, or perfect in a perfect score, or handsome in He is extremely handsome. Other terms, as numbers (one cup; twelve months), certain demonstrative pronouns […]
- Adjectivize
Grammar. to make into an adjective, as by adding a suffix: The noun mirth can be adjectivized by adding -ful or -less to form the adjectives mirthful and mirthless. to apply adjectives to; describe: He tends to adjectivize himself as loyal and trustworthy, but that is far from accurate. to overdescribe: She adjectivizes in agonizing […]