Adjective Clauses aka Relative Clauses Grammar Guide with Worksheets

Make adjective clauses easily understood and used with this informative and engaging grammar resource! This zero-prep grammar guide & worksheet set is perfect for exploring how to use adjective clauses to improve writing.

Whether you call them adjective clauses or relative clauses, you probably already know that ESL students struggle with them. Make adjective clauses something they can cross off their list of difficult grammar concepts because this is going to make it so much easier for them!

Here's what's inside:

A densely-packed four-page grammar guide that

1. Defines adjective clauses
2. Lists common relative pronouns & relative adverbs
3. Gives sample sentences with adjective (relative) clauses beginning with both subject and object relative pronouns as well as relative adverbs.
4. Explains how prepositions are used in conjunction with adjective clauses.
5. Outlines how adjective clauses can modify indefinite pronouns
6. Summarizes how commas are used with adjective clauses and how their use or lack of use changes the meaning of the sentence.
7. Details how to reduce adjective clauses to adjective phrases.
8. Touches on how to make/use non-restrictive and restrictive appositives.

and worksheets to help students hone their skills with adjective clauses:

• Identifying Adjective Clauses full page size and 1/2 page size with answer key
• Choose It: Students complete sentences by circling the correct relative pronoun or relative adverb + answer key
• Subjects: Students combine given pairs of sentences by turning the second one into an adjective clause (one page with an example, one page without an example) + answer key
• Subject/Object: Students combine given pairs of sentences by turning the second one into an adjective clause (one page with an example, one page without an example) + answer key
• Matching: Students match adjective clauses to sentences. One page is split in half (less challenging) one page is full. + answer keys
• Reducing Adjective Phrases: Students rewrite sentences to use reduced adjective phrases. One page has an example; the other doesn't. + answer key
• Creating Adjective Clauses: Students have sentence starters to fill in with adjective clauses of their own creation.

PLUS:

EASEL VERSION (please see the preview!)

• The grammar guide portion is transformed into a presentation-style layout to help you introduce and go over the various elements.
• digital versions of the worksheets with some including interactive components like self-checking drag & drop

Your students are going to love how easily they can develop better sentence-writing skills by incorporating adjective clauses, and this will provide them with just the foundation they need!

You will love that this requires no prep on your part! Whether you use the printable version or the Easel version, everything is already made. Just print (or in the case of Easel, assign), and you're ready to go!

This grammar guide was designed for upper intermediate-level ESL adults and is also ideal for secondary students.

Most recent update: 6/15/2022

You'll love how I transformed some of the worksheets in this resource into BOOM cards!

• Identifying Adjective Clauses BOOM Cards
• Writing Sentences with Adjective Clauses BOOM Cards

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