4 Adjective clauses
exercise 4.1
The bolded passages in the following sentences are adjective clauses. Underline the nouns that they modify.
(1) A statement issued after General Rose met US Admiral Jeremy Boroda, NATO’s southern Europe commander who would be in charge of any air raid, spoke of possible strikes on Serbian and Bosnian governemtn positions.
By Monday they had pulled back less than ten percent of the 315 tanks, artillery pieces, mortars and multiple-rocket launchers that Serb officers say General Rose asked them to give up.
The handful of heavy weapons that the Bosnian government has given up as its side of the bargain have been grouped at a Sarajevo barracks watched by Ukrainian troops.
More than 500 people have been killed and thousands made homeless across northern Ghana as ethnic fighting between the Konkombas and the Nanyumbas, which erupted on February 3, spread to seven districts.
Late last year the Majlis gave the go-ahead for charges to be brought against Mr Hashemi, a move designed to take the broadcasting service out of the president’s hands.
Non-governmental organisations, some of which work with Unita via Zaire, have taken over health care and distribution of UN emergency food in the 80 percent of the country where Unita prevents the government from working.
The king warned that the Zulu nation would not be bound by South Africa’s new constitution, under which the first multi-racial elections will be held in April.
The favourite to win the contract, the UK Lottery Foundation is headed by Virgin group chairman Richar Branson and former Tory cabinet minister Lord Young.
More than half of the £4 billion worth of property stolen each year is being sold to finance the habits of drug users.
The estimate of the amount of drug-related property crime is derived from a formula devised by the Greater Mancester police and Home Office statistics.
That same evening the Algerian press issued a denial which seemed to shoot down yet another rumour.
A 45-year-old on social benefit who spends his time getting drunk and is of no use to his family or to society should be excluded from medical care which should instead be given to active 70 year olds.
exercise 4.2
EACH OF THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES CONTAINS AN ERROR THAT IS CAUSED BY A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF ADJECTIVE CLAUSES. REWRITE THE SENTENCES CORRECTLY.
(1) The customers asked me if we had the beer what they wanted.
The experience what I want to write about is learning English.
French is my first language in which I am very articulate.
In future, I will be more confident to apply for a job who requires a good knowledge of English.
We had a neighbour that her son played soccer professionally.
I always enjoy living in a spacious environment of which Hong Kong does not offer.
When I look back on my life and think about the most exciting things ever happened to me, I have a hard time choosing one of them.“
The Tsar used to visit Poland what was a province of the empire.
The company has enough surplus (8.4 million) to meet any deficiencies occur in 1991.
One month later a man carried a long gun rushed into the company.
In total there were five francophones versus twenty-five anglophones of which almost all of them were bilingual.
(12) To show their appreciation, the students prepared a homemade card to thank everybody who participated in the staff training which was appreciated by everyone.
(13) One morning she had a customer in her store named Ann with her son Sam.