Question

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State whether the highlighted clauses are noun, adjective or adverb.
1. This is the road which leads to the post office.​

Answer 1

Answer:

In the given sentence,

• The main clause is "This is the road."
• The sub clause is "which leads to the post office."
• The kind of the sub clause is adjective or relative clause.

Explanation:

★ Adjective Clause :--

• Adjective clause identifies a person or a thing that has just been mentioned in the sentence.
• An adjective clause starts with relative pronoun - who, whom, whose, which, that to describe the noun or pronoun placed before the relative pronoun.
• An adjective clause can also start with wh-relative adverbs ie when, where, why, whence, how, as. ( The modification is typically adverbial - time, place, reason. )
• Adjective clause may start with the relative pronoun 'but'. Just to remember, if the clause is modifying the noun or pronoun it is adjective clause.