Complete the sentences with relative clauses. Use who or which.

1. This is the woman (work with my sister.)

2. What is the name of the man (he just came in)?

Point out the adjective clauses in the following sentences.

1.       Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was as white as snow.

2.       The house that we live in belongs to my grandfather.

Constructing a sentence having a noun clause is very simple. One of the easiest ways is to begin a sentence like this:

He said that…

A noun clause acts like a noun. It can serve all the purposes a noun serves in a sentence. In the following examples we are comparing the five functions of a noun with that of a noun clause. The sentences are patterned on a similar fashion, but in the first one we have used a noun and in the second one we have used a noun clause.

Method

We have seen that the same word may introduce clauses of different kinds. The following examples illustrate this point.

The same word may introduce clauses of different kinds. It is therefore wrong to judge a clause from the word which introduces it. The exact nature of each clause should be figured out from the kind of function it serves in the sentence.