Adjective Clauses

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Adjective Clauses

• Using Twenty Questions to teach adjective
  clauses in a literary context.

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Why teach adjective clauses?

• to avoid primer language
• to avoid redundancy
• to write longer, more sophisticated sentences
• to add sentence variety
• to create greater fluency

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What is an adjective clause?

• It is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or
  a pronoun.
• It identifies, describes or offers further
  information about a noun or a pronoun.
• It is also called a relative clause.

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Twenty Questions using who or that

• Im thinking of a character who has blond hair
  and blue eyes.
• Possible answers
• Mark Salzman is the character that has blond hair
  and blue eyes.
• or
• The character that has blond hair and blue eyes
  is Mark Salzman.

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Twenty Questions from Iron and Silk

• Little Mei
• Teacher Wei
• Pan
• Mark
• Old Ding
• Teacher Zhu

• fixes the piano
• plays the cello
• lives on a boat
• teaches wushu
• prepares a fish dinner
• tells a story about a special meal
• gives a bike ride

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Two Examples of Possible Answers

• Little Mei is the girl to whom Mark gives a
  bicycle ride.
• The girl to whom Mark gives a bicycle ride is
  Little Mei.

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Using that or which for events

• a surprising lesson
• a musical instrument
• a special dinner
• an amazing feat
• an interesting piece of advice

• Teacher Zhu remembers
• Pan recalls
• Teacher Wei gives
• Mark can use
• Mark demonstrates

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Two Examples of Possible Answers

• A surprising lesson that Mark demonstrates is on
  E.T.
• A lecture on E.T. is a surprising lesson which
  Mark demonstrates.