Clause(II)!

Adjective clauses &

Adverb clauses
Tonny Kuo
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National Hsinchu University of Education

Department of English Instruction

Week

Topics

Assignments

10

Clauses (I)

(6) Maurer: Units 10, 11

11

Clauses (II)

(7) Maurer: Units 12, 13, 19,and 20

12

Discussion on pedagogical
grammar

Quiz 3

13

Passive/Gerunds and Infinitives

(8) Maurer: Units 14, 15, 16, and 17

14

Modals/Conditional sentences

(9) Maurer: Units 4, 5, 22, and 23

15

Grammar activities presentation

16

Grammar activities presentation

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Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be able

1. to review the basic concepts of noun clauses
and define related terms
2. to identify and classify adjective clauses
3. to distinguish identifying/non-identifying clauses
4. to transcribe adjective clauses to sentences,
and transcribe sentences to adjective clauses

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Task 1: Bingo review

1. Form a group of 4 or 5, and then sit with your
group members.
2. Raise your hand when you are able to answer the
question.
3. T will pick anyone from your group to answer. If
you make it correct, you get 10 points.
4. The group with highest points wins the game.
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what is
reporting
verb?

Make Tonny is
a wise senior
into noun
clause.

what is
clause?

What are 3
types of noun
clause?

Give 1 example
of adverb
clause

(T/F) We can
omit if in
embedded
ques.

Make Was he
the top student what is indirect
speech
in class? into
noun clause.

(T/F) A ques. that

is changed to a N
cl. is called
embedded ques.

Make Whats
your favorite
subject? into
noun clause

what is
sentence?

Function of
noun clause

give 2 examples
of reporting
verbs

what is
subordinate
clause

what should we
notice when
changing di. to
imdi. speech?

what is noun
clause

(T/F) We dont
use if to intro. a
S. N. cl.

Give 1 example give 1 sentence (T/F) Must use

of adjective
with reporting the fact that as
subordinator
clause
verb
after a prep.
(T/F) We can
what is
What are 3
omit that when
phrase?
introducing an types of clause?
O. noun clause

what is direct
speech

what is
dependent
clause

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Task 2: Sentences making

1. Completing the sentence with at least one
adjective that best describes your personality:
Iam a person who is ___________.
2. Completing the sentences with daily events/habits
best describe your group members: ____ a
person who ___________.
3. Share your sentences to the class.
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Task 3: Video Discussion

1. What is adjective clause?
2. Whats the function of adjective clause?
3. What are the patterns of adjective clause?
4. What are subordinators of adjective clause?
5. What are the difference between essential/nonessential adjective clause?
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Adjective Clause

Definition/Function/Place

Relative Pronoun
- refer to people: who, whom, that
- refer to things: which, that
- The verb in an adjective clause agrees with the
noun/pronoun that the clause modifies.

Role of relative pronoun

- as subject: who, which, that
- as object: who(m), which, that, omitted

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Adjective Clause

Use whose to indicate possession

- whose + noun to replace his/her/its/their + noun

Relative adverb:
- where: to introduce an adjective clause that
modify a noun of place. where replaces there
- when/that: to introduce an adjective clause that
modify a noun of time. Omission of when/that is
informal.
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Adjective Clause
Identifying/Essential clause

Non-identifying/Non-essential clause

used
to
add
extra
information
but
does
used to distinguish one person or thing
not distinguish one person or thing from
from another
another
e.g. The man who delivers the mail is e.g. The man, who delivers the mail, is
friendly.
friendly.
You can omit relative pronoun only in
identifying clause.

Dont use that as a relative pronoun in a

non-identifying clause.

e.g. The man (who/whom) you met on

Friday is Tarik.

e.g. The GEPT test, which I took for

along time ago, has proved to be
accurate.

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Task 4: Group discussion

Stay in your group, and discuss the following exercises in

textbook:
1. Exercise 1: Discover the grammar (pp. 202-203)
2. Exercise 3: Identifying/Non-identifying clauses (p. 204)
3. Exercise 5: Editing (p. 206)

Check your answers with your partners.

State your questions.

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Adjective Clause with Prep.

The relative pronouns who(m), which, that, and whose

after a noun can be used as objects of prepositions in
adjective clauses.
- sentence with the prep. at the beginning of the clause is
formal.
- A prep. cannot come at the beginning in clause with
that.
- relative pronouns as object can be omitted: who(m),
which, that

Bill is the man who/whom/that/* I spoke to.

= Bill is the man to whom I spoke to. (formal)

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Adjective Clause with Prep.

p. 214: adjective clause with quantifier

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Adjective Clause with Prep.

p. 214: adjective clause with noun

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Adjective Phrases

We sometimes shorten adjective clauses to

adjective phrases with same meanings.
- relative pronoun serves as subject only
- a phrase is a group of words without subject and
verb

Steps: p. 216
1. Deleting relative pronoun
2-1. Deleting be verb or
2-2. Changing verb into its -ing form
* check commas

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Adjective Phrases

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Task 5: Group discussion

Stay in your group, and discuss the following

exercises in textbook:
1. Exercise 1: Discover the grammar (p. 217)
2. Exercise 3: Adjective Phrases (p. 219)

Check your answers with your partners.

State your questions.

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Adverb Clause

Complex sentence: sentences containing both an

independent clause and a dependent clause
- main idea: independent clause

Adverb clause are dependent clauses that indicate

how, when, where, why, or under what
conditions things happen.
- subordinators = subordinating conjunctions
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Adverb Clause

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Adverb Clause

Types: p. 326
- adverb clause of time
- adverb clause of place
- adverb clause of reason
- adverb clause of condition
- adverb clause of contrast
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Assignment 11/25

Text book:
- Unit 12 Review (p. 210)
- Unit 13 Review (p. 228)
- Unit 19 Review (p. 339)
- Unit 20 Review (p. 357)

See you
next week!

Quiz:
- adjective clause
- adverb clause
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Department of English Instruction