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Using Adjective Clauses
(#4):
Types of Adjective Clauses
Object Pattern
Clauses
In addition to subject-pattern
adjective
clauses, there are
also object-pattern ones.
They have that name because
in
them, the
relative pronoun replaces
the object
of
the clause.
Examples
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The person called me. We met
the
person at
Jack's party. --->
The person
who(m)
(that*) we met
at Jack's party
called me.
The sentence with who(m)
has an adjective
clause:
who(m) we met
at Jack's party.
In the clause, who(m)
is the object, but the
clause modifies
(describes,
explains, specifies)
the subject of the
sentence: the person.
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| 2. |
I
enjoyed talking to the person.
We met
the person
at Jack's party.
--->
I enjoyed talking to the person
who(m)
(that*)
we met at Jack's
party.
Again, the sentence with who(m)
has
an adjective
clause:
who(m) we met
at
Jack's party.
Who(m) is still
the object
of the clause, but here, the
clause modifies
the object of the main sentence:
the person.
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The trip was quite interesting.
I
took
the trip
last week.
--->
The trip that
(which*) I
took last week
was quite interesting.
The sentence with
that
has an adjective
clause:
that I took last
week. In
the clause,
that is
the object
and modifies the subject
of the sentence:
the trip.
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I
enjoyed the trip. I took
the trip
last week.
--->
I enjoyed the trip
that
(which*)
I took last week.
The sentence with
that
has an adjective
clause:
that I took last
week. In
the clause,
that is
still the
object. The
clause modifies
the
object
of the sentence: the trip.
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Special Notes:
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Adjective clauses come after
the
nouns that
they modify:
wrong: *The person called me who(m)
we met at Jack's
party.
right: The person who(m) we met
at Jack's party called me.
wrong: *The trip was quite
interesting
that I took last week.
right: The trip that I took last
week
was quite
interesting.
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Do not use
both an
object pronoun and
a relative
pronoun in an adjective
clause:
wrong: *The person who(m) we met him
at Jack's party called me.
right: The person who(m) we met at
Jack's party called me.
wrong: *I enjoyed the trip that I
took it
last week.
right: I enjoyed the trip that I
took last week.
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The relative pronouns whom
and that are
used to refer
to people, but whom is more
common. Also,
whom is used
mostly in
writing
and very formal speech,
but who
is used for
both subjects and
objects in
everyday conversation and casual
speech.
The relative pronouns that
and which
are used
to refer
to things, but
that is
more
common.
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