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Unit 2: Functional Grammar: Sentence

with subordinators in the middle as in sentences B, C, and E, no comma is required. If a Notes
comma is placed before the subordinators in sentences B, C, and E, it is wrong.
Note that sentences D and E are the same except sentence D begins with the dependent clause
which is followed by a comma, and sentence E begins with the independent clause which
contains no comma. The comma after the dependent clause in sentence D is required, and
experienced listeners of English will often hear a slight pause there. In sentence E, however,
there will be no pause when the independent clause begins the sentence.

Task Write down five examples of complex sentences.

2.4 Complex Sentences/Adjective Clauses

At a certain point in your writing in English, you should be able to identify every sentence
you write as simple, compound, or complex.

Did u know? Two additional structures, adjective clauses and appositives, will give you
a much greater sentence variety within which to accomplish your writing objectives.

Defination
An adjective clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun. It is possible to combine the
following two sentences to form one sentence containing an adjective clause:
The children are going to visit the museum.
They are on the bus.
The children who are on the bus are going to visit the museum.

Adjective Clause

In the sentence above, there are two other ways to write the sentence correctly using the
second sentence as the adjective clause.

The children that are on the bus are going to visit the museum.
The children on the bus are going to visit the museum.
Some other sentences can be combined into a sentence using adjective clauses in a variety of
ways, and they are all correct. Note the variety of ways in which the following two sentences
can be combined.
The church is old.

My grandparents were married there.
The church where my grandparents were married is old.
The church in which my grandparents were married is old.
The church which my grandparents were married in is old.
The church that my grandparents were married in is old.

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