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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adjective clause

The adjective clause that is discreet, performing the office of a single word, we call a +Dependent Clause+; A youth makes friends, not performing such office, we call an +Independent Clause+.

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

When the pronoun that connects an adjective clause, the preposition never precedes.

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

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 James Witt Sewell

Each adjective clause is connected to insects by which.

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

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 Brainerd Kellogg