

OK, OK, so that won’t impress most members of the opposite sex-only English majors. Subordinating conjunctions introduce adverb clauses and relative pronouns introduce adjective clauses. If you want to be considered cool and impress members of the opposite sex, remember this:

It is an "adjective" clause because it describes the noun "students.")Ī clause is a group of related words with a subject and verb.Īdjective clauses are always dependent clauses.Īdjective clauses, like adverb clauses, are introduced by dependent signals. Students who are intelligent understand adjectives. (The word "intelligent" is an adjective because it describes the noun "students.")īut adjectives are not always single words. Intelligent students understand adjectives.

First, let’s remember that adjectives modify (or describe) nouns and pronouns.
