Adjective or Relative Clauses

Adjective clause is also called the Relative Clause is part of the sentence (clause) that provide information on the person or thing that preceded it. Relative terms similar to Clause Adjective Clause. Called Adjective Clause because he explains things or people that preceded it. Called Relative Clause because he connects (to relate) the object or the person behind the phrase. Relative clause begins with the conjunctive who, whom, Whose, which, that, with the following functions

Who: describe the person as a subject

Whom: people describe it as an object (to replace me, you, us, him, her,

them, it)

Whose: describe the person as the owner (replacing my, your, our, his, her, Their,

its)

Which: describes the object as subject and object

That explains a person or thing as either subject or object

Tricks that can be used to solve a problem as follows:

1.  If the word before the points are showing a human, and after the points are verbs or auxiliary verbs like to be or modals, or auxiliary 'do' (is, is not, do, do, will, won 't, can, can not, was, was not, etc.), then the contents of the dots is who.

2.  If the word before the points are showing a human, or humans is followed by a preposition like with, to, by, from, etc. and after the points are the subject (noun, the name of the person, or pronouns: I, you, we she , he, it, etc.), then the contents of the dots is whom.

3.  If the word before the dots are showing people, or animals, and said after the dots is a noun, then the contents of those points is Whose.

4.  If the dots before the word is a noun that indicates non-human, then the contents of the points is which.

Thus the answers to the questions above are: 1. who, 2. whom, 3. Whose, and 4. which, 5. Whom.

Example :

1. Fast food, which most people love, is not very healthy.
2. Students who are keen to learn get good grades.
3. You know someone whose grandfather served in World War II.
4. My father and me waiting all night outside the Apple store are trying to purchase a new iPhone.
5. Fruit that is grown organically is expensive.

Pirated software is currently

Since the middle of this year, Microsoft re-seller asserted on the computers that they no longer will tolerate behavior that could make the other computer vendors, companies and consumers bear the risk due to market sellers of pirated software. According to information reported by the Department of Justice Regional Microsoft, based in Singapore, currently the largest software manufacturers that continue to roll out anti-piracy campaign. The goal is to identify the dealers who sell new PCs containing pirated Microsoft software.

The method used, Microsoft spreading private investigator who was assigned to buy a new computer at random in computer stores and sends it to the computer software engineers. Computers are purchased and then tested whether fitted with original and licensed software or pirated. From the studies carried out in Jakarta, Bandung, Medan, Makassar and Surabaya, revealed that 60 percent of computer dealers who were randomly selected to sell computers with the original software in it. That is, there are still 40 percent of sellers who sell counterfeit computer software.

"These initiatives may seem very hard. Some dealers are proven installing pirated software is not happy, "said Jonathan Selvasegaram, Microsoft Regional Attorney. "However, they need to understand why we do it," he said. Selvasegaram said the past six months, Microsoft has received 369 complaints and reports from consumers. "They reported the problem on their computers that are installed pirated software," ujarnya.Selain, according Selvasegaram, a number of consumer and PC dealer who has always install the original software also approached Microsoft. "They asked what steps we did to chain stores that offer pirated software," he said.

Selvasegaram said, the dealers could not compete honestly admitted. "If we do not take the initiative, consumers will suffer the consequences, honest dealer can go bankrupt," said Selvasegaram. "We will be firm but fair and give priority to establish the principle of mutual respect," he said.

Exercises

1. I talked to the woman, she was sitting next to me.(who)

2. I have a class, it begins at 8.00 AM.(which)

3. The man called the police. His car was stolen.(whose)

4. The building is very old. He lives there.(where)

5. The woman was Mrs Silvy. I saw her.(whom)

Answer :

1. I talked to the woman who was sitting next to me.

2. I have a class which begins at 8:00 AM.

3. The man whose car was stolen called the police.

4. The building where he lives is very old

5. The woman whom I saw was Ms.Silvy.

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