ADJECTIVE CLAUSE

Dalam grammer bahasa inggris terdapat teori mengenai Adjective Clause. Adjective Clause merupakan dependent clause (susunan kata yang belum dapat dikatakan sebagai kalimat karena maknanya masih mengambang) yang berfungsi sebagai adjective dan menjelaskan noun (kata benda) atau pronoun kata ganti) pada main clause dari suatu complex sentence (kalimat yang terdiri dari  independent clause dan satu atau lebih dependent clause). Di dalam kalimat bahasa inggris, noun atau pronoun berfungsi sebagai subject ataupun object.

Adjective Clause membutuhkan kata penghubung relative adverb ( why, where,or when) atau relative pronoun (whom,which, whose, that, or who) untuk menghubungkan adjective dengan noun ataupun adjective dengan  pronoun. Tata Letak adjective Clause berada didepan kata benda dan  dibelakang kata benda yang sedang diterangkan mengikuti noun atau pronoun.

RUMUS ADJECTIVE CLAUSE

Complex Sentence

Independent Clause + Adjective Clause

Adjective Sentence

Relative Pronoun +/- S*+V

FUNGSI RELATIVE  PRONOUN  PADA  ADJECTIVE  CLAUSE

Fungsi	Relative Pronoun	Contoh Kalimat
Subject	Who, That, Which	I thanked the women. She help me -  I thanked the women who help me -  I thanked the women that help me The book is mine.  It is on the table -  The book which is on the table is mine -  The book that is on the table is mine
Object	Whom, That, Which, Who	The man was Mr.Jones. I saw him -   The man whom I saw was Mr.Jones -   The man that I saw was Mr.Jones The movie was not very good. We saw it last night -   The movie which we saw last night was not very good -   The movie that we saw last night was not very good
Possessive	Whose	I know the man. His bicycle was stolen -  I know the man whose bicycle was stolen

ADJECTIVE CLAUSE DENGAN BERBAGAI RELATIVE PRONOUN

Relative Pronoun	Contoh Kalimat Adjective Clause
Who	He is the man who works hard to support their daily needs. Menerangkan “man” (subject complement)
Whom	The woman whom you saw last night is my sister. Menerangkan “woman” (subject kalimat)
Whose	The man, whose bike is antique, works as a lecturer. Menerangkan “man” (subject kalimat)
Which	Merry, which is very faithful, is my cat. Menerangkan “Merry” (subject kalimat)
Where (Relative Adverb)	Jakarta is a city where I was born. Menerangkan “city” (subject complement)
That	It is the car that I have dreamed for many years ago. Menerangkan “car” (subject complement)

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