ADJECTIVE CLAUSES

An adjective clause is a clause that describes a noun. Because the clause is an adjective, it is
positioned directly after the noun that it describes.
Exercise

Choose the correct answer.

1. I did not get the job ______ I applied for.

a. Who
b. What
c. Whose
d. Which
2. February, which is the second month of the year, is the month ______ many of my friends
take vacation for skiing.
a. Which
b. Where
c. When
d. Who
3. The dress ______ the actress is wearing weighs about fifty pounds.
a. Whom
b. Who
c. Which
d. When
4. The family ______ house was decorated beautifully for the holiday will receive a prize.
a. Which
b. Whose
c. Whom
d. When
5. The people ______ refused to show proper identification were not allowed to be in the
building.
a. Who
b. Whom
c. Which
d. Where
6. The researchers are doing case studies of people ______ families have a history of high
blood pressure and heart disease.
a. When
b. who
c. whom
d. whose
7. Thousands of people enter the Tiban mosque ______ design is so beautiful.
a. Who
b. Whom
c. Whose
d. When
8. Our office, ______ has three paintings, looks more elegant.
a. Who
b. Whom
c. Which
d. Whose
9. Krystal, ______ I really like, plays a new movie.
a. Who
b. Whom
c. Which
d. Whose
10. The man, ______ is deeply religious, goes to the mosque five times a day.
a. Who
b. Whom
c. Which
d. Whose
11. At the end of the nineteenth century, Alfred Binet developed a test for measuring
intelligence ______ served as the basis of modern IQ tests.
a. Has
b. It has
c. And
d. Which has
REVIEW “PASSIVE”

1. Black, red, and even bright pink diamonds ______.

a. Occasionally to find
b. Occasionally found
c. Have occasionally been found
d. Have occasionally found
2. Many books _____, but one of the best is “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by
Dale Carniegie.
a. Have written about success
b. Written about success
c. Have been written about success
d. About successful

3. The Amazon valley is extremely important to the ecology of the earth because forty
A B C
percent of the world’s oxygen is producing there.
D
4. The proposal was being discussing when I called the office this morning.
A B C D
5. The thief were arrested by the police at his victim’s house last night.
A B C D
6. The program was formally start in January 2011 by a group of 13 prominent business
A B
leaders in America who now comprise the Board of Founders.
C D
7. The laboratory assigned by the company to conduct the medical check-up for its
A B C
employers.
D