adjective clause

American  

noun

Grammar.

1. a relative clause that modifies a noun or pronoun, as the clause that I told you about in This is the book that I told you about and who saw us in It was she who saw us.

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Example Sentences

The upper part represents where as a conjunction connecting the adjective clause to place, and the lower part represents it as an adverb modifying are deposited.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd

In the sentence, The man that I mentioned has come, the relative clause, that I mentioned, is an adjective clause modifying man.

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Wood, Thomas

The true adjective clause is “sleeking ... locks” = with which she sleeks, etc.; and the true participial clause is “she sits ... rocks” = seated on ... rocks.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

The adjective clause may be introduced by the relative pronouns who, which, that, but, as; sometimes by the conjunctions when, where, whither, whence, wherein, whereby, etc.

From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt

Show that an adjective clause may be equivalent to an Infinitive phrase or a participle phrase.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd