Adjective Clause

Adjective Clause dinamakan Juga Relative Clause yaitu Clause (anak kalimat) yang digunakan/berfungsi sebagai adjective yang menerangan keadaan noun atau pronoun. Untuk lebih jelasnya penjelasan mengenai Adjective Clause, pehatikan penjelasan dibawah ini:

         Contoh:

       I have read the book (that) you just mentioned

Main Clause: I have read the book

Subordinate Clause: (that) you just mentioned

         Anak kalimat menerangkan kata benda the book, disebut Adjective Clause 

                    The lesson (that) she is learning is very difficult

Main Clause: The lesson is very difficult

Subordinate Clause: (that) she is learning

Berdasarkan pada the Antecedent dapat ditunjuk oleh introductory words (kata-kata pendahulunya). Adjective Clause dapat diklasifikasikan menjadi 2 macam, yaitu:

         

     1. Relative Pronoun

Kata Ganti Orang

Kata penghubung yang digunakan adalah : Who, Whom, Whose, That

Fungsi :

        a.   Subject:

-          - He paid the money to the man who / that had done the work.  

        b.  Objek Kata Kerja:

- He paid the man whom/that he had hired. 

c.   Objek Kata Depan:

- He paid the man from whom he had borrowed the money.

d.  Kata Ganti Kepunyaan:

- This is the girl whose picture you saw.

Benda, Binatang

Kata Penghubung yang digunakan adalah : Which, that

Fungsi :

       a.  Subject:

- Here is a book which/that describes animals

b.  Objek Kata Kerja:

- The chair which/that he broke is being repaired

c.   Objek Kata Depan:

- She was wearing the coat for which she had paid $2,00. 

   2. Relative Adverbs

 Waktu

Kata penghubung yang digunakan : When

- This is the year when the Olympic Games are held.

Tempat

     Kata penghubung yang digunakan : Where

     - Here is the house where I live

 Alasan

     Kata penghubung yang digunakan : When

     - Give me one good reason why you did that.

   1. Relative Pronoun

      Yaitu Adjective Clause dengan memakai kata penghubung Relative Pronoun

·                    The boy is called Bob. He gave me a present.

*   The boy who gave me a present is called Bob atau

*   The boy who is called Bob gave me a present

Beberapa contoh Adjective Clause lainnya:

*   The boy whose radio was stolen is a student

*    The girl whom I gave a special reward is a bright student

*    The bike which I borrowed last week was sold

     2. Relative Adverb

          Pelajaran tentang ini dibahas lebih lengkap pada Relative Clause. 
          Hal-hal yang perlu ditambahkan disini, yaitu:

*  Kata why (yang menunjukkan alasan) yang menjadi Adverb penghubung. Mungkin (kadang-kadang) dapat digantikan dengan that atau kadang-kadang dapat dihilangkan dalam kalimat

- The reason (that) I came should be obvious to you

- The reason (why) I came should be obvious to you

- The reason I came should be obvious to you

*   When atau Where Bering dapat Baling ditukarkan dengan preposition yang menunjukkan tempat (a preposition of place) ditambah dengan which  

- The small town in which (=where) I was born has grown to a large metropolis

- The day on which (=when) they were to leave finally arrived

          Kadang-kadang that dapat menggantikan where atau when

- The day that (or when, on which) the trial was to take place was a stormy one.

- please suggest a good place that (or where) we can meet
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