Tuesday, 28 March 2023

EF67 Class 25 - adjective clauses

 

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 9:15.

REMINDER: haleyshec.blogspot.com

 

My classes for Q4 (April-June)

P1 EF7/10

P2 EF1/2

 

Today’s agenda

·      Quiz #3 – noun clauses

·      Begin adjective clauses – final type of clause in English

·      Talking and reading exercise- Advice Columnist / Agony Aunt- giving advice

Opportunity to express your advice. BONUS PTS

 

Wednesday

·      Continue advice columnist

Talking and reading exercise- Advice Columnist / Agony Aunt- giving advice

Opportunity to express your advice. BONUS PTS

 

·      Continue adjective clauses

·      HW

 

Thursday

·      Continue advice columnist

Talking and reading exercise- Advice Columnist / Agony Aunt- giving advice

Opportunity to express your advice. BONUS PTS

 

·      Continue adjective clauses

 

Friday

·      Test- paragraph-

·      Continue adjective clauses

Quiz Monday

 

Monday

·      Quiz-adjective clauses

 

·      Begin sentence combining

·      Business letters

 

Tuesday

·      sentence combining

·      Business letters

 

Wednesday

·      sentence combining

·      Business letters

 

Thursday

·      Easter lecture

 

Friday

·      Good Friday

·      NO SCHOOL

 

Monday

·      Easter Monday

·      NO SCHOOL

 

 

Quiz#3

Quiz3

Write a sentence with a noun clause for each.

Submit it to me by 9:45.

1.    think                     women

2.    feel                        international

3.    know                     progress

4.    understand         improve

5.    hope                     wage

6.    say                         equal

 

 

 

REVIEW Sentence types:

 

* SIMPLE- one main clause

          SV   SSV    SVV   SSVV   Imperative   Interrogative

SVVVV- poor writing  Use your best judgement

 

PRO ADVICE: If something is important and you want to people to remember it, write it in a simple sentence.

-powerful, clear, direct

 

* COMPOUND – two main clauses joined together

1.       , FANBOYS   , SOBA

2.       ; semicolon

3.       ; TRANS,

Transitional words and terms: e.g however    therefore   also   nevertheless   to tell the truth    in general

 

SV, SOBA SV.

SV; SV.

SV; TRANS, SV.

 

 

* COMPLEX – one main clause + one subordinate clause

1.       adverb clauses- because   when   if   since   so that   so...that, etc

2.       noun clauses

3.       adjective clauses

 

 

 

Adjective clauses – the last kind

adjective clauses – more in-depth, more detailed

keep it as simple as possible to start- start basic and then go deeper

 

adjectives – describes a noun

the red hat adjective

the nice red hat adjectives

 

* SIDE NOTE

ORDER OF ADJECTIVES:

opinion, size, age, shape, colour, material, origin, purpose NOUN

 

The beautiful small new round lime-green aluminum Martian flying machine is right there. TOO MANY ADJECTIVES – PICK 2-3

 

*opinion, size, age, shape, colour, material, origin, purpose NOUN

 

My grandmother broke her gorgeous sky-blue English teapot.

Shari loves to listen to ancient Persian music.

The dog plays with a big round plastic chew toy.

Yuko collects old Japanese tea sets.

 

That is a green nice sweater. XXX sounds weird

That is a nice green sweater.

 

two adjectives in the same category, separate them with a comma

That is a cute fat baby.

That is a cute, beautiful baby.  The comma shows that the adjectives can be switched.

 

I have a pretty chubby baby.

 

 

individual adjectives – good for simple ideas

 

more complicated, subtler, more in-depth description – use adjective clauses

 

Three most common pronouns for adjective clauses: who that which

90% of the time: who that which

 

Other less commonly used pronouns for adjective clauses:

whom, where, whose – NOT USED OFTEN

whom – rarely used, very fancy sounding, like a grammar book

Native English speakers rarely use ‘whom’.  We say ‘who’.

 

MY ADVICE: Forget about ‘whom’. It is not important. You don’t need it.

One exception about ‘whom’- writing to someone, don’t know who will be receiving the letter

 

GREETING: To whom it may concern,

e.g. business letter, legal letter, reference letter

Not an everyday occurrence. Pretty rare.

 

FOCUS ON HIGH-FREQUENCY USAGE: who that which – 95% of the time

 

who – used for people, any people, sounds nice, sounds polite and respectful

 

that- things that are not alive, animals, RARER-people (sounds a little disrespectful, you don’t that person)

 

SUBTLETY IN ENGLISH, signal your opinion of a person:

The guy that my sister married is odd. adjective clause

The man who my other sister married is awesome. adjective clause

 

‘that’ is a multiuse word in English

Who is that? Not an adjective clause, sounds polite

Who is that woman you were talking to?

That is a beautiful baby!

Is that your son? -sounds ok

 

FOCUS –‘that’ in adjective clauses

 

 

which- special things (special to you), unique things

 

This is a watch that she bought last week. not special

She really likes the watch which her dad gave her for her 18th birthday. special

 

witch – a magical woman

 

wedding ring – which

necklace that your grandmother gave you – which

toothbrush – that

glasses- that

 

which- unique things- Great Wall of China, Tokyo, Dehli, the Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal

 

REVIEW:

who- people

that- things, animals

which- special things, unique things

 

DISTRIBUTE “Adjective Clause” p.c.

 

CONTINUE TOMORROW

 

 

***

Mrs. Web

-         advice columnist

 

TV- Dr. Phil

Maury-

Steve-

 

Give advice to help another person improve their situation.

Do you give much advice in your life?

academic advisor

advisory committee

Do you ask for advice?

Who do you ask?

 

OPTIONAL BONUS PTS

Individual- offer advice to the writer, spoken

 

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