Whom I wanted is an adjective clause modifying the noun man.

Exercise 4

In the following sentences the relative pronouns and the conjunctions introducing adjective clauses are omitted. Rewrite the sentences using the proper relative pronouns and conjunctions. The adjective clauses are in italics.

  1. The people you are seeking are not here.
  2. I have read the book you brought.
  3. The articles you mentioned are not listed.
  4. I will go to the place you say.
  5. This is a book you should read.
  6. Those are ideals the people will readily grasp.
  7. We make Gods of the things we fear.
  8. I listened to every word he said.
  9. I should love the cause you love.
  10. The things the people demand are just and right.

Exercise 5

In the following sentences the adjective clauses are all printed in italics. Determine whether they modify the subject or the object, the predicate complement or the object of the preposition.

  1. In that moment when he saw the light he joined our cause.
  2. Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
  3. This is perhaps the reason why we are unable to agree.
  4. He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur that he loves.
  5. The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency.
  6. There is a popular fable of a sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street, carried to the Duke's house, washed and dressed and laid in the Duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all ceremony like a duke and assured that he had been insane.
  7. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
  8. Superstition, who is the mother of fear and faith, still rules many people.
  9. We are looking for the time when the useful shall be the honorable.
  10. He who enslaves another cannot be free.
  11. He who attacks the right assaults himself.
  12. The force that is in every atom and every star, in everything that grows and thinks, that hopes and suffers, is the only possible God.
  13. He who adds to the sum of human misery is a blasphemer.
  14. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is the desire to know the truth.

ADVERB CLAUSES

447. The third kind of clause which we may use in a complex sentence is the adverb clause.

An adverb clause is a clause which takes the place of an adverb. It may modify a verb, an adjective, or an adverb. We studied adverb clauses in lesson 21 and we found eight classes of adverb clauses, expressing time, place, cause or reason, manner, comparison, condition, purpose and result. For example: