Adjective Clause

Verbal adjective dapat dibuat dengan memendekkan Adjective Clause menjadi phrase atau kata. Verbal adjective yang terdiri dari satu kata letaknya di sebelah kiri dari Noun yang diterangkannya. Sedangkan verbal phrase letaknya di sebelah kanan yang diterangkannya.

Contoh:

Adjective clause:Doctors could not save the man who was dying of cancer.

Verbal adjective phrase:

Doctors could not save the man dying of cancer.

One-word verbal adjectiveDoctors could not save the dying man

Exercise 1:Gabungkan kedua kalimat ini menjadi satu kalimat yang mengandung adjective clause

1. Danny Kaye is a well known entertainer.John has met him.

2. His idea was to finish his work before writing the letter.I approved of the idea.

3. The little girl is my cousin’s daughterShe is wearing red hair ribbon

4. The flowers are beautifulYou brought them to me.

5. That is the place.We had a picnic there

6. She couldn’t go to the party

What was the reason?

7. That is my friend from Chicago.You read her book

8. That is the Longfellow BuildingI have often heard of it

9. Susan finds time for paintingShe is a very busy person

10. In a few years the time will come.We will be glad we worked hard and saved our money.

(Let’s Write English)

Mengubah Adjective Clause menjadi adjective Phrase

Clause: The man who is talking to John is from KoreaPhrase: The man -- -- talking to John is from Korea

Clause: The ideas which are presented in that book are interestingPhrase: The ideas -- -- presented in that book are interesting

Clause: Ann is the woman who is responsible for preparing the budgetPhrase: Ann is the woman -- -- responsible for preparing the budget

Clause: The books that are on that shelf are minePhrase: The books -- -- on that shelf are mine

Clause: English has an alphabet that consists of 26 lettersPhrase: English has an alphabet -- consisting of 26 letters

Clause: Anyone who wants to come with us is welcomePhrase: Anyone -- wanting to come with us is welcome

Clause: George Washington, who was the president, was a generalPhrase: George Washington, -- -- the president, was a general

(Understanding – Betty Azar)

Exercise 2Pendekkan setiap kalimat menjadi kalimat yang mengandung verbal adjective

1. The basket which hangs on the wall contains a rare species of bromeliad

2. People who suffer from a severe depression should seek help from a psychologist who has a license.

3. The aardvark, which hunts at night, feeds entirely on ants and termites.

4. The people who are waiting for the bus in the rain are getting wet5. I come from a city that is located in the southern part of the country6. The children who attend that school receive a good education7. The scientists who are researching the causes of cancer are

making progress.8. The fence which surrounds our house is made of wood.9. They live in a house that was built in 189010. We have an apartment which overlooks the park.11. Do you know the woman who is coming toward us?

(Understanding – Betty Azar)Contoh

The people who are waiting for the bus in the rain are getting wet.(adjective clause)The people who are waiting for the bus in the rain are getting wet(adj phrase)

The people who are waiting for the bus in the rain are getting wet(Induk kalimat)They are waiting for the bus in the rain (anak kalimat)Waiting~people(verbal adj)

Exercise 3Beri tanda kurung pada setiap verbal adjective dan beri tanda panah dari verbal adjective tersebut menuju kata yang diterangkannya.Semuanya ada 20 verbal adjectives

1. That hanging basket contains a rare species of bromeliad.2. People suffering from a severe depression should seek help from

a licensed psychologist.3. A crying child is easily comforted by a few soothing words.4. The homes destroyed by the hurricane will be demolished by one

of the city’s wrecking crews during the coming weeks.5. The number of vacation days provided by the university is

adequate for most people.6. Baked potatoes are frequently served with sour cream, grated

cheese, and bits of fried bacon.7. The old movied shown late at night are frequently better than

movies produced in the last five years.8. Badly torn garments should be mended by an experienced

seamstress or tailor.9. Volunteers recruited by the sheriff searched for the lost hikers for

several exhausting days.10. People walking in poorly lighted areas at night should be

extremely careful.

(Building Skills for TOEFL)

Exercise

A complex sentence contains at least one main clause and one subordinate clause.Each of the following complex sentences contains at least one subordinate adjective clause.Write down all the adjective clauses

1. Pottery makers who used “the metal of clay” for cooking utensils foreshadowed one of the early uses of aluminum that modern man developed

2. Modern man struggled for many years to develop a process that he could use to separate aluminum from other elements to which it was bonded.

3. Until 1845, scientists failed to discover a process which could separate aluminum from its various alloys.

4. The particles of aluminum that were formed by early processes were no larger than the head of a pin.

5. In 1854 a Frenchman named Deville developed a process which produced lumps of aluminum that were the size of a marble.

6. His process, which represented an important advance and which founded the aluminum industry, produced pure aluminum by chemical means.

7. The cost of the new metal, which was at first considered almost priceless, was $545 per pound in 1852.

8. Napoleon’s honored guests were served with forks and spoons which were made of the new metal, but his less important guests had to use tableware which was made of less expensive metals such as gold and silver.

9. The price of the metal, which had surpassed even that of gold, fell rapidly in 1859 when French plants began full production.

10. France, where the process was developed, took an early lead in aluminum production.

(Building Skills for TOEFL)

Exercise

Adjective clauses may be marked by introductory words such as which, whom, that, etc. or they may be unmarked.There are 14 unmarked adjective clauses in the following sentences.

1. The twenty-eight space mission the United States launched in the 1960’s and 1970’s involved very expensive spacecraft NASA could use only once.

2. The rocket system engineers designed launched the spacecraft successfully but burned up as it fell back to earth.

3. The capsule the astronauts rode in was also designed to be used only once.

4. The Space Transportation System (STS) program President Nixon approved in 1972 called for the development of a spacecraft NASA could reuse many times.

5. The design NASA selected for the STS program is made up of three basic parts.

6. The part the astronauts can control is the cargo-carrier.7. The first STS flight NASA had originally scheduled for April 10

finally lifted off on Sunday, April 12,1981.8. The first launch was delayed because of a problem with the

computer system the spacecraft used.9. The astronaut NASA officials chose for the first STS flight had a

great deal of experience because of the five other space flights he had made.

10. The STS flight NASA launched in April a981 was intended to be the first of many shuttle flights the United States would send up in the following years.

(Building Skills for TOEFL)