Adjective Clauses (Analysis)

Directions:

  1. Read each sentence closely to comprehend its message.
  2. Identify each sentence as Simple, Compound, Complex, or Compound-Complex.
  3. In each sentence, identify a subject-verb combination in all dependent and independent clauses.
  4. Identify dependent clauses as Adverbial, Adjective, or Noun.
  5. When finished, hover the cursor over the sentence to check your answers.

from “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway

Wilson called in Swahili and the older gun-bearer, who was skinning out one of the heads, straightened up, pulled a box of solids out of his pocket and brought them over to Macomber, who filled his magazine and put the remaining shells in his pocket.

As the car moved slowly across the open space toward the island of brushy trees that ran in a tongue of foliage along a dry water course that cut the open swale, Macomber felt his heart pounding and his mouth was dry again, but it was excitement, not fear.

The mess boy had started them already, lifting the bottles out of the canvas cooling bags that sweated wet in the wind that blew through the trees that shaded the tents.

She was an extremely handsome and well-kept woman of the beauty and social position which had, five years before, commanded five thousand dollars as the price of endorsing, with photographs, a beauty product which she had never used.

Sentence Type: Compound-Complex (C-Cx)
Clause Combination: 2+2
IND #1: Wilson called
coordinator: and
IND #2: gun-bearer straightened, pulled and brought
DEP #1 (adj): who was skinning (subordinator: who to identify “gun-bearer”)
DEP #2 (adj): who filled and put (subordinator: who to identify “Macomber”)
Sentence Type: Compound-Complex (C-Cx)
Clause Combination: 3+3
DEP #1 (adv): As car moved
DEP #2 (adj): that ran (subordinator: that to identify “bushy trees”)
DEP #3 (adj): that cut (subordinator: that to identify “water course”)
IND #1: Macomber felt
coordinator: and
IND #2: mouth was
coordinator: but
IND #3: it was
Sentence Type: Complex (Cx)
Clause Combination: 1+3
IND: boy had started
DEP #1 (adj): that sweated (subordinator: that to identify “bags”)
DEP #2 (adj): that blew (subordinator: that to identify “wind”)
DEP #3 (adj): that shaded (subordinator: that to identify “trees”)
Sentence Type: Complex (Cx)
Clause Combination: 1+2
IND: She was
DEP #1 (adj): which had … commanded (subordinator: which to identify “woman”)
DEP #2 (adj): which she had … used (subordinator: which to identify “product”)

Abbreviations

  • S – simple sentence     C- compound sentence   CX – complex sentence    C-Cx – compound-complex sentence
  • IND – independent clause     DEP – dependent clause
  • Adv – dependent adverbial clause
  • Adj – dependent adjective clause
  • N-S – dependent noun clause functioning as a subject
  • N-OV – dependent noun clause functioning as object of a verb
  • N-OP – dependent noun clause functioning as object of a preposition
  • N-NC – dependent noun clause functioning as noun complement
  • N-AC – dependent noun clause functioning as adjective complement