Adjective Clauses

      Hello blog. Unfortunately, I am sick today :( Blogs are due though, so here I am. For the past couple of days, we've been talking about adjective clauses, which are dependent clauses that describe a person, place or thing. They contain a subject and its verb. For example, from the warm-up, "He missed his sisters and cousins, who have known him since he was  a strong, good-looking boy." (11/30) The underlined part is the adj. clause because it's talking about the sisters and cousins. It's like one long adjective, hence the name. This is a sentence with a single adj. clause and it's complex. Here's one with multiple, "These are men of chemistry, who spray the trees against pests, who sulfur the grapes, who cut out diseases and rots and mildews, and sickness." (11/30) This contains three adj. clauses. They are all modifying the subject, "men of chemistry." On 11/31, we had the example, "Sully, whose skills were already maturing, moved up from the wolves level to the lions." -Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis. "Sully" is the subject being modified and is being described as having skills. There is one dependent clause and one independent ( Sully moved up from the wolves level to the lions), making it a complex sentence. "They gave me a cable knit sweater and an alskin jacket, which kept me dry on the wettest days."- from Keneth Donohue, The Stolen Child. This is also a complex sentence because it has an independent and a dependent clause. Yay, I'm getting extra credit!!!!! Thanks Ms. Sobrero!