Adjective Clauses – KEY
Practice 1
1. There was one fighter in those days, a pretty good light-heavyweight named Junior Ellis, who
used to sing along with country and western records before a bout.
2. Little Jon, whose eyes were quicker than most, should have seen the hole, but all his attention
was on the stars.
3. Boo had drifted to a corner of the room, where he stood with his chin up, peering from a
distance at Jem.
4. The recent sudden death of sir Charles Baskerville, whose name has been mentioned as the
probable liberal candidate for Mid-Devon at the next election, has cast a gloom over the city.
5. We run bare-legged to the beach, which lies smooth, flat and glistening with fresh wet shells
after the night’s tides.
6. This leader, whose word was law among boys who defied authority for the sake of defiance,
was no more than twelve or thirteen years old and looked even younger.
7. Thinking that his brother had run away with Christine, Phillipe had dashed in pursuit of him
along the Brussels road, where he knew that everything was prepared for the elopement.
8. How strange it is that people of honest feeling and sensibility, who would not take advantage of
a man born without arms or legs or eyes, think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.
Practice 2
1. I closed the door, went outside, then greeted the mailman, who was going down the street
with his mailbag over his shoulder, making his daily rounds.
2. The producer entered the theater, took a seat, then watched the dancer, who was rehearsing
with only a piano for accompaniment, learning the choreography.
Practice 3
1. Walking in his boots and sinking into the mud, the landscaper started to inspect the front and
back of the garden, where the downpour had washed away many of the new plants.
2. While scrutinizing lovingly from the hallway, as if to rearrange all the china and flowers for the
bridal party, she walked toward the dining table, which was covered by a pure white lace
tablecloth.
3. Meredith perched in her apartment loft in the bohemian district, with Tramp, who was a mutt,
and Lady, who was a blue-ribbon pedigree.
4. They had stopped to relax that afternoon at Berkley Springs, which on most days was a very
popular tourist site and where there was a famous spring-water well.