About This Course
At the end of this course, you will be able to say:
I can...
- demonstrate knowledge of any given word from the list of vocabulary for this block in terms of both meaning and use
- explain the purpose of adjective clauses
- identify an adjective clause and the noun it modifies
- identify the subject of the main clause and the subject of the adjective clause in a given sentence
- identify relative pronouns as subjects, objects, or objects of a preposition within an adjective clause
- identify and correctly use relative adverbs
- distinguish between adjective clauses that express possession and those that express quantity
- distinguish between and correctly punctuate essential and non-essential adjective clauses
- reduce adjective clauses to adjective phrases in both active and passive voice
- identify and correct adjective clause errors, including punctuation errors
- write a one-paragraph email message about how a project at work is going, using four adjective clauses and one adjective
- phrase
- write a short paragraph describing the house where I grew up, using at least two adjective clauses with whereand two other
- kinds of adjective clauses
- write a short paragraph describing a person I admire, using at least two adjective clauses where the relative pronoun is the
- subject and two where the relative pronoun is an object
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