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Adjective Clauses
Adjective clauses are a really important part of the English language, and master-
ing them can boost your IELTS writing score, improve your speaking accuracy,
and even help improve your reading comprehension.
What are Adjective Clauses?
Look at this sentence and find the adjectives:
She looked sadly at the big, green, empty box.
The adjectives are: big, green, and empty. They describe the noun “box”.
Adjectives give information about a noun and usually come directly in front
of it. However, adjective clauses do the same but usually come right after the
noun they describe.
Look at these two sentences and see how they could be condensed into a
single sentence:
There is a man sitting in the corner. He is my brother.
The man who is sitting in the corner is my brother.
What is the adjective? It’s the phrase “who is sitting in the corner”.
What noun is it describing? “The man”.
Adjective clauses are often referred to as “relative clauses” because they be-
gin with relative pronouns or relative adverbs such as:
Who
That
Whom
When
Whose
Where
Where
Why
Which
How does it Work?
Generally, an adjective clause will follow one of these patterns:
1. Relative pronoun/adverb + subject + verb
2. Relative pronoun (as subject) + verb
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