Exploring Adjective Clauses and Compound Complex Sentences

The video tutorial covers adjective clauses, explaining their role as dependent clauses that add detail to nouns or pronouns. It highlights the use of relative pronouns like 'that', 'which', 'who', 'whom', and 'whose' to identify adjective clauses. The tutorial also explores compound complex sentences, which contain multiple independent and dependent clauses, providing examples and methods to analyze sentence structure by identifying subjects and verbs.

What is an adjective clause?

• A clause that connects two independent clauses.

• A clause that describes a verb.

• A clause that adds detail to a noun or pronoun.

• A clause that can stand alone as a sentence.

Which of the following is NOT a relative pronoun used to start an adjective clause?

• Which

• Where

• That

• Whom

In the sentence 'Emma Willard was the one who founded the first women's college in the United States,' what is the adjective clause?

• Emma Willard

• Who founded the first women's college in the United States

• Was the one

• In the United States

What is the subject of the independent clause in the sentence 'I want a bicycle that I can ride over rough ground'?

• I

• Bicycle

• Ride

• Want

What type of sentence contains at least two independent clauses and one dependent clause?

• Compound-complex sentence

• Compound sentence

• Simple sentence

• Complex sentence

In the sentence 'The band began to play and Clarissa was pulled onto the dance floor for a dance that was starting,' what is the dependent clause?

• Clarissa was pulled onto the dance floor

• The band began to play

• And Clarissa was pulled

• For a dance that was starting

In the sentence 'The Grand Canyon is a stunning site, but Yosemite National Park also has many impressive features that you will never forget,' what is the adjective clause?

• That you will never forget

• But Yosemite National Park also has many impressive features

• Yosemite National Park

• The Grand Canyon is a stunning site

What is the subject of the first independent clause in the sentence 'You can take a large cruise ship to see the glaciers of Alaska, or you can ride a smaller boat that can go closer to the coast and its icy covering'?

• Cruise ship

• You

• Glaciers of Alaska

• Smaller boat

In the sentence 'We must hurry so that our applications are turned in on time; otherwise, we may not be chosen for the leadership program,' what is the adverb clause?

• For the leadership program

• Otherwise, we may not be chosen

• So that our applications are turned in on time

• We must hurry

Which of the following sentences is a compound-complex sentence?

• Emma Willard was the one who founded the first women's college in the United States.

• You can take a large cruise ship to see the glaciers of Alaska, or you can ride a smaller boat that can go closer to the coast and its icy covering.

• The Grand Canyon is a stunning site.

• I want a bicycle that I can ride over rough ground.