ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 focuses on adjective, adverb, and noun clauses. Major grammatical concepts to learn in this chapter are adjective clause (relative clause), adverb clause, noun clause, independent (main) clause, dependent (subordinate) clause, relative pronoun, relative adverb, and subordinating conjunction. Clauses are divided into independent and dependent. Relative pronouns (who, whom, whose, which, that), relative adverbs (where, why, when), and relative pronoun deletion are introduced for adjective clauses as well as the broad reference relative pronoun “which.” Punctuation of adjective clauses is discussed and practiced. Subordinating conjunctions of time, condition, cause and effect, contrast, manner, and degree are introduced with adverb clauses, as well as a review of their punctuation patterns. Noun clauses (nominal clauses) and the sentence slots that they fill are examined. They are divided into two types, the “that–type” (flag words also called complementizers) and the “wh–type” (interrogative). Practice distinguishing among “that” used in adjective, adverb, and noun clauses is provided. The structure of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences are discussed in Writing Matters in terms of sentence variation. Language Matters examines the acquisition of adjective clauses by children.
