2016-08-10 Writing: more adjective clauses

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: p. 181 part B - add commas to the paragraph as needed
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p. 183-4 part B - Combine the sentences into one complex sentence that includes a main clause and an adjective clause. Use commas if necessary.
Specifically: make the second sentence an adjective clause in the first sentence
1 Jamila Haddad, who is a high school student in Chicago, ran away from home last week.
2 She ran away to avoid a marriage that was arranged by her parents.
3 Mr. and Mrs. Haddad, who are from Lebanon, are very traditional.
4 Jamila is the oldest daughter in the Haddad family, which immigrated to this country seven years ago.
5 Her parents want her to marry a man who is 32 years old.
6 The husband-to-be lives in Lebanon, which is a country in the Middle East.
7 He owns a business which is very successful.
8 People who know him say he is very nice.
9 Jamila, who wants to go to college in her new country, ran away from home rather than marry the man.
10 Mr. and Mrs. Haddad, who thought they had arranged a good future for their daughter, don’t understand why she ran away.
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Sometimes the adjective clause is separated from the noun by a prepositional phrase:
You should read the book on the table, which I told you about yesterday.
- I told you about the book yesterday, not the table.
	(We can think of “on the table” as identifying (necessary) information about the book, so it comes before the extra information “which I told you about yesterday.)
Strange: You should read the book, which I told you about yesterday, on the table.
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Sometimes “which” means an entire sentence or situation, not just a noun:
I grew up with seven siblings, which made the house very noisy at times.
- “which” = “growing up with seven siblings”

Because I was the oldest, I had to do most of the chores, which I hated.
- “which” could be “chores” or “having to do most of the chores”, it’s unclear