ADJECTIVE CLAUSE

RANGKUMAN MATERI

Adjective Clause adalah klausa terikat yang digunakan

sebagai kata sifat (adjective). Klausa ini menjelaskan kata benda. Adjective clause biasanya
di hubungkan dengan relative pronoun who, whom, whose, which, that dan where. Kata-
kata ganti ini berfungsi pada posisi kata benda dalam klausa yang diterangkan dalam hal ini
perlu diperhatikan bahwa adjective clause selalu menerangkan kata benda

A. Jenis Relative Pronoun

1. Defining (menggambarkan) Relative Pronoun

Bentuk pronoun yang sifatnya membedakan benda yang diterangkan dari benda lainnya.

Cirinya :
1. Tidak diapit koma
2. Terkadang pronoun-nya bias di hilangkan.

Jenis pronoun yang digunakan :

a. Who
Menggantikan orang yang berkedudukan sabagai subjek.

Contoh :
1. The man is my new teacher
2. He is smiling at me
Gabungan kalimat diatas adalah :
The man who is smiling at me is my new teacher
Ingat : person + who/that verb

1. The woman is very friendly

2. The woman lives next door
Gabungan kalimat diatas adalah :
The woman who lives next door is very friendly.

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1. The man is a lawyer
2. The man bought my car
Gabungan kalimat diatas adalah :
The man who bought my car is a lawyer

b. Whom
Menggantikan orang yang berkedudukan sebagai objek

Contoh :
1. The girl is a Balinese
2. I was introduced to her last night
Gabungan kalimat diatas adalah :
The girl to whom I was introduced last night is a Balinese
The girl whom I was introduced to last night is a Balinese
Ingat : person + whom/that + S + P

1. The man was away on holiday

2. I wanted to see him
Gabungan kalimat diatas adalah :
The man whom I wanted to see was away on holiday

1. The girl is here now

2. I saw last night
Gabungan kalimat diatas adalah :
The girl whom I saw last night is here now

Untuk beberapa kasus, relative pronoun dapat dihilangkan

Contoh :
1. The man I wanted to see was away on holiday
2. The lady we are talking about is Professor Andi’s wife

c. Whose
Menggantikan orang yang menyatakan kepunyaan (posseive)

Contoh :
1. Yanto was a young writer
2. His novel won the first prize in the national competition
Gabungan kalimat diatas adalah :
Yanto whose novel won the first prize in the national competition was a young
writer.
Ingat : person + whose + noun

d. Which
Menggantikan benda atau binatang, baik berkedudukan sabagai subjek maupun
objek.
 Sebagai subjek
1. I saw the dog
2. The dog was beaten by the boy
Gabungan kalimat diatas adalah :
I saw the dog which was beaten by the boy
Ingat : thing + which/that….

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 e. That
Menggantikan orang maupun benda. Dalam hal ini “that” sama dengan who, which,
whom.
1. The girl who met me is very pretty = The girl that met me is very pretty
2. The girl whom Doni loves is very pretty = The girl that Doni loves is very pretty
3. Pussy which I feed everyday is my cat = Pussy that I feed everyday is my cat

Note :
1. That tidak di gunakan untuk menerangkan Tuhan, namun kita dapat
menggantikan who, whom
Contoh : Allah is the only one who created the universe
2. That tidak bias diawali preposisi
Contoh : The student from whom I bought the type writer called you last night.
3. That tidak dipergunakan dalam nondefining

B. Non-defining Relative Pronoun

Bentuk pronoun yang bersifat memberi tambahan informasi/keterangan
tambahan mengenai frasa yang diterangknnya.

Ciri-cirinya :
1. Selalu di apit koma
2. Relative pronoun-nya tidak boleh di hilangkan ‘That” tidak di pergunakan

Contoh
1. Mr. Jackson, who is a professor, is travelling in Mideast this year
2. Bandung, in which I live, is very famous for serabi
Note : in which = where (mengganti tempat)