Adjective Clauses

 Tugas Bhs. Inggris 5, 6, 7, & 8

Adjective Clauses is also RELATIVE CLAUSE which Clause (the sentence) used/function as adjective that explains the State of the noun or pronoun. And At a certain point in your writing in English, you should be able to identify every sentence you write as simple, compound, or complex.  Two additional structures, adjective clauses and appositives, will give you a much greater sentence variety within which to accomplish your writing objectives.  This page contains a small amount of information about adjective clauses along with just ten very difficult exercises. First, we will define what adjective clauses are and how they work. An adjective clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun.

 

The adjective clause will follow one of these two patterns:

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Adjectively clause can be classified into two types :

• Relative Pronoun

1. personal pronoun (the connector used is : who , whom , whose , that. )
2. the object of an animal (the connector used is :  Which, That).

•  Relative Adverbs

1.  Time ( the connector used is : When).
2.  Place (the connector used is : Where).
3.  Reason (the connector used is : When).

Example of Adjective Clause:

1. The boy whose radio was stolen is a student.
2. The reason (that) I came should be obvious to you.
3. The time when the plane takes off and lands will be changed soon.
4. He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead.
5. The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
6. The man that invented the cuckoo clock is no more.

  Example a part of article containing the adjective clauses (underline) :

The study found that the pump, known as a VAD, for ventricular assist device, is superior to the most potent drugs for heart failure and may eventually prevent the deaths of up to 100,000 Americans each year, the study's authors told a meeting of the American Heart Association. The findings may change the treatment of heart failure, a major cause of death in the United States, said Dr. Eric A. Rose, the main investigator in the study and chairman of the department of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in Manhattan. The term heart failure refers to a specific condition in which the heart muscle becomes weak and cannot pump effectively. It is often caused by coronary artery disease, heart attacks or high blood pressure. Nearly five million Americans live with varying degrees of heart failure, and more than a half-million develop the condition each year. Half of those who receive the diagnosis die within five years, despite advances in drug therapy. Assist pumps were first developed as a temporary measure to keep people with advanced heart failure or other severe cardiac problems alive while they waited for heart transplants. But when many patients, unable to get transplants, lived with the pumps for long periods some for four years doctors began looking to the device as a permanent therapy. Long-term use was proved feasible in the study, which was the first to compare the pumps and the latest drugs for patients with the most severe heart failure, Dr. Rose said. The risk of death in the study was 48 percent lower among patients who received the device than among those receiving the most potent cardiac drugs.

Nevertheless, Dr. Rose said that the device was not a cure for heart failure and that it involved a complication rate 2.35 times higher than that for drugs in the study. The complications included serious infections, bleeding and mechanical malfunctions like motor failure, kinking of the tubes and worn bearings. Dr. Rose said that the rate of complications was expected to fall with modifications to the device. Heart failure is the only form of heart disease that is increasing in this country. The reason is that hundreds of thousands of patients who have survived heart attacks or had coronary bypass operations go on to develop heart failure as their heart disease progresses. Assist pumps may eliminate the need for some transplants, and so may help alleviate the serious shortage of donor hearts for transplant. Permanent assist pumps would also eliminate the risks of the immune- suppressing drugs that transplant recipients need to prevent rejection of the donated heart. Fewer than 2,200 heart transplants were performed in this country in 1999. More than 4,000 patients were on the waiting list, and many died before an organ became available. Many more have died before they could even get on the list. Dr. Rose said that if the Food and Drug Administration approved assist pumps for permanent use, he expected treatment of end-stage heart failure eventually to resemble that of end-stage kidney failure. "It is premature to say that VADS are as good a treatment now as dialysis," he said, "but you could envision that over time" they would become so.

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

 

Reference :

• The first reference here
• The second reference here
• The third reference here
• The fourth reference here

  

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