Exercise 2

In the following sentences, note which are the noun clauses and which are the adjective clauses and which are the adverb clauses. The verb in the subordinate clause is in italics.

  1. Life is what we make it.
  2. We acquire the strength that we overcome.
  3. While he slept the enemy came.
  4. All that he does is to distribute what others produce.
  5. When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
  6. Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just; he is naked though he be locked up in steel whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
  7. When strength and justice are true yoke fellows, where can we find a mightier pair than they?
  8. You will gain a good reputation if you endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
  9. Live as though life were earnest and life will be so.
  10. He that loveth makes his own the grandeur that he loves.
  11. Who does the best his circumstance allows does well; angels could do no more.
  12. He is not worthy of the honeycomb that shuns the hive because the bees have stings.
  13. We always may be what we might have been.
  14. Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
  15. Let me make the songs of the people and I care not who makes the laws.
  16. Attention is the stuff that memory is made of.
  17. A great writer has said that grace is beauty in action; I say that justice is truth in action.
  18. If we do not plant knowledge when young it will give us no shade when we are old.
  19. You can no more exercise your reason if you live in constant dread of laughter than you can enjoy your life if you live in constant dread and terror of death.