II. Adjective-Clause

An Adjective-clause has but one function, viz. to qualify some noun or pronoun belonging to some other clause. In doing this it simply does the work of an adjective roper. All Adjective-clause is introduced by a Relative pronoun or by a Relative adverb. The noun or pronoun that stands as antecedent to the Relative pronoun or Relative adverb, is the word qualified by the Adjective-clause.

A man who has just come inquired after you.

This is not the book that I chose.

This is not such a horse as I should have bought.

We found it in the place where we had left it.

Note. – The Relative pronoun (when the case would be Accusative) is sometimes left out. (It is never left out when the case is either Nominative or Genitive.)

The food (that or which) he needed was sent.

Ex.2. Pick out the Adjective-clause or clauses in each of the following examples and point out the noun or pronoun qualified by it in some other clause. If the Relative pronoun has been omitted anywhere, supply it:

Man has the power of making instruments which bring into view stars whose light has taken a thousand years to reach the earth.
The first thing that man needed was some sharp-edged tool.
The exact time when the theft was committed was never found out.
The man by whom the theft was committed has been caught.
The house we lived in has fallen down.
This is the same story that I heard ten years ago.
It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good.
This is not such a book as I should have chosen.
He made his living by the presents he received from the men he served.

10. All that glitters is not gold.

11. In ponds, from which but a week before the wind blew clouds of dust, men now catch the re-animated fish.

12. A river is joined at places by tributaries that swell its waters.

13. Of what use is a knowledge of books to him who fails to practise virtue?

14. Fortune selects him for her lord, who reflects before acting.

15. Springs are fed by rain, which has percolated through the rocks or soil.

16. Nuncoomar prepared to die with that quiet fortitude with which the Bengalee, so backward, as a rule, in personal conflict, often encounters calamities for which there is no remedy.

17. I have seen the house where Shakespeare was born.

18. The plan you acted on has answered well.

19. They accepted every plan we proposed.

20. Surely the story you are telling me is not true.

21. The night is long that never finds the day.

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