Adjective and Adverb Clauses

As long as you’re going to the store, please buy more chips.

The dependent clause in the above sentence is functioning as:

• Adjective

• Adverb

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CCSS.L.3.1G

Since the family got a new car, she has asked to drive it to school.

The dependent clause in the above sentence is:

• has asked

• to drive

• she has asked to drive it to school.

• the family got a new car

• Since the family got a new car

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Bring your application to any Registry of Motor Vehicles clerk who is on duty on the first floor of the State Office Building.

The Adjective clause in the above sentence is:

• who is on duty on the first floor of the State Office Building

• who is on duty

• Bring your application to any Registry of Motor Vehicles clerk

• to any Registry of Motor Vehicles clerk

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

The word wuthering which is a Yorkshire word means “blowing fiercely.”

The Adjectival clause “which is a Yorkshire word ” is:

• Essential

• Non-essential

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

CCSS.L.6.2A

Roberto Clemente was a leader on the Pittsburgh Pirates team that won the 1971 World Series.

The dependent clause here is functioning as a/an:

• Adverb

• Adjective

• Noun

• Subject

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Athens is the city where the first modern Olympic Games were held.

The Adjectival clause “where the first modern Olympic Games were held.” is:

• Essential

• Non-essential

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CCSS.L.2.1E

The kind of plain yogurt that is most nutritious contains live bacteria.

Say whether the Adjectival clauses in the sentences are essential or not:

• Essential

• Non-essential

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CCSS.L.2.1E

There go the workers. The workers are resurfacing our street.

Choose the sentence where the two clauses are joined together to form one sentence containing an adjective clause that modifies the boldfaced word.

• There go the workers which are resurfacing our street.

• There go the workers. The workers who are resurfacing our street.

• There go the workers who are resurfacing our street.

• There go the workers, which are resurfacing our street.

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CCSS.L.2.1E

If I hear any news, I will call you.

The dependent clause “If I hear any news” here if functioning as a/an:

• Adjective

• Adverb

• Noun

• Subject

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CCSS.L.3.1A

Tropical air travels toward the poles as the polar air moves toward the equator.

The dependent clause here if functioning as a/an:

• Adjective

• Adverb

• Noun

• Subject

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CCSS.L.3.1A