Reduced Adjective & Adverb Clause

Joseph Henry, ___ first director of the Smithsonian Institute, was President Lincoln's advisor on scientific matters.

• the

• to be the

• was the

• as the

___ Ruth St. Dennis turned to Asian danced to find inspiration for her choreography.

• It was the dancer

• The dancer

• That the dancer

• The dancer was

Norman Weiner, ___ mathematician and logician, had an important role in the development of the computer.

• who, as a

• was a

• whom a

• a

Jerome Kern's most famous work is Showboat, ___ most enduring musical comedies.

• it is one of the finest,

• one of the finest,

• the finest one

• as the finest of the

Aerodynamics is the study of the forces ___ on an object as it moves through the atmosphere.

• acting

• act

• are acting

• acted

The National Road, ___ of the first highways in North America, connected the East Coast to the Ohio Valley.

• which one

• it was one

• one

• was one

___ in front of a camera lens changes the color of the light that reaches the film.

• Placed a filter

• A filter is placed

• A filter placed

• When a filter placed

Geometry is the branch of mathematics ___ the properties of lines, curves, shapes, and surfaces.

• that concerned with

• it is concerned with

• concerned with

• its concern are

___ an average of 471 inches of rain a year, Mount Waialeale in Hawaii is the wettest spot in the world.

• It receives

• Receiving

• To receive

• Received

___ through a prism, a beam of white light breaks into all the colors of the rainbow.

• When shines

• It shines

• It is shone

• When shone