Adjectice Clause

An adjective clause—also called an adjectival or relative clause—will meet three requirements:
First, it will contain a subject and verb.Next, it will begin with a relative pronoun [who, whom, whose, that, or which] or a relative adverb [when, where, or why].Finally, it will function as an adjective, answering the questions What kind? How many? or Which one?
The adjective clause will follow one of these two patterns:
relative pronoun or adverb + subject + verbrelative pronoun as subject + verb Example :

1. Whose big, brown eyes pleaded for another cookie
2. Why Fred cannot stand sitting across from his sister Melanie
3. That bounced across the kitchen floor
4. Who hiccupped for seven hours afterward
5. The boy who is eating over there is my brother

Dependent Clauses

Dependent clauses have the subject and predicate but can not stand alone. They depend on another clause to have meaning. Examples are: “When you finish your work” and "unless I get more money.” With each of these, you want to ask “What?” because the thought was not finished. Dependent clauses are also called subordinate clauses and they start with a subordinate conjunction. This is the word that links the dependent clause to the rest of the sentence.

Examples of subordinate conjunctions are: how, where, when, why, unless, although, after, as far as, as if, because, before, once, whether, while, now that, until, since, and unless.

The three types of dependent clauses are adverbial (or adverb), nominal, and adjectival (or adjective). Adverbial clauses function as an adverb and answer the questions: when, where, why, how, and how much. Examples include: “Now that it rained a lot, the grass turned green.” and “I am much older than my brother.”

Nominal clauses function as a noun and can be the subject, an object, an appositive, or a complement. Sometimes nominal clauses start with an interrogative like: who, what, when, where, how, who, which, or why. Examples of nominal clauses are: “They always fought over who should pay the bill” and “Whoever did this is in big trouble.”
What Is an Adjective Clause

Adjectives clauses have a subject and a verb (or predicate). They will start with a relative pronoun, like: that, who, whom, whose, or which, or a relative adverb, like why, where, or when. Adjective clauses function as an adjective and modify nouns and pronouns. They are also called relative clauses.

Just as the other dependent clauses, the adjective clause does not express a complete thought. It does not need commas separating it from the rest of the sentence if it has essential information in it; that is if you need the information it provides. If it gives additional information, then you use commas. A good way to test for this is to leave out the clause, read the sentence, and see if the meaning of the two sentences is different.

Here are some examples of adjective clauses. The adjective clause is underlined.

Chocolate, which many of us adore, is fattening.
People who are smart follow the rules.
I can remember the time when there were no computers.
Charlie has a friend whose daughter lives in China.
Wine that is produced in Tuscany is not cheap.

Adjectives

Since adjective clauses act like adjectives, you may want more information about adjectives. Some adjectives express the writer’s opinion of a noun or pronoun, like silly, lovely, awful, and outrageous. These are called opinion adjectives.

Some adjectives are descriptive, telling about the physical characteristics of size, shape, color, or age. Examples include: huge, wee, rectangular, oval, bluish, purple, new, and ancient.

An origin adjective tells where an object originated or where is came from. These are adjectives like: eastern, lunar, Egyptian, or German.

The composition of a noun or pronoun will be described by a material adjective. Examples are: woolen, plastic, metal, or silk.

Some adjectives tell what purpose an object is used for. These many times end with an “ing.” Some examples include: baking, fishing, testing, or hunting.

Lastly, some adjectives compare and have levels of comparison. These are words like: “good, better, best”, “dry, drier, driest”, and “beautiful, more beautiful, and most beautiful." Other adjectives compare but only on one level, like: unique, main, impossible, final, and inevitable.

The story of Lake Toba
Once upon a time, there was a man who was living in north Sumatra. He lived in a simple hut in a farming field. The did some gardening and fishing for his daily life.
One day, while the man was do fishing, he caught a big golden fish in his trap. It was the biggest catch which he ever had in his life. Surprisingly, this fish turned into a beautiful princess. He felt in love with her and proposed her to be his wife. She said; "Yes, but you have to promise not to tell anyone about the secret that I was once a fish, otherwise there will be a huge disaster". The man made the deal and they got married, lived happily and had a daughter.
Few years later, this daughter would help bringing lunch to her father out in the fields. One day, his daughter was so hungry and she ate his father’s lunch. Unfortunately, he found out and got furious, and shouted; “You damned daughter of a fish”. The daughter ran home and asked her mother. The mother started crying, felt sad that her husband had broke his promise.
Then she told her daughter to run up the hills because a huge disaster was about to come. When her daughter left, she prayed. Soon there was a big earthquake followed by non-stop pouring rain. The whole area got flooded and became Toba Lake. She turned into a fish again and the man became the island of Samosir.



Questions and Answers of the excercises :
1. I talked to the woman, she was sitting next to me.(who)
2. I have a class, it begins at 8.00 AM.(which)
3. The man called the police. His car was stolen.(whose)
4. The building is very old. He lives there.(where)
5. The woman was Mrs Silvy. I saw her.(whom)

answer :
1. I talked to the woman who was sitting next to me.
2. I have a class which begins at 8.00 AM.
3. The man whose car was stolen called the police.
4. The building where he lives is very old.
5. The woman whom i saw was Mrs Silvy.

Sumber :
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/adjectiveclause.htm
http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/adjectives/adjective-clause.html
http://www.nmelliana.blogspot.com/2012/03/story-of-lake-toba.html




ShareThis





KLIK LIKE BILA ANDA SUKA ARTIKEL INI...!!!

UFO berbentuk segitiga menghebohkan Amerika Serikat (AS), Inggris dan Australia. Bentuk segita yang dimilikinya membuatnya sulit dijelaskan.

Pada umumnya, laporan penampakan UFO selalu berupa piring terbang atau berbentuk cerutu. Penampakan pertama UFO segitiga terjadi pada pertengahan 1970-an. Tak hanya itu, ada dugaan kuat, UFO ini disimpan di fasilitas militer AS di Area 51.

Pada 26 April lalu, UFO segitiga muncul di Inggris. Pada 29 April kemudian, UFO ini muncul di Missouri, AS. Kemudian, pada Rabu (2/5) lalu, UFO segitiga muncul di Sydney, Australia. Kemunculan UFO segitiga ini terjadi dalam beberapa bulan terakhir.

Penasaran? Ini dia UFO di AS, Inggris, dan Australia seperti dimuat HuffPost.

Bagaimana menurut Anda?

Sumber : http://teknologi.inilah.com/read/detail/1858029/ufo-segitiga-hebohkan-as-inggris-dan-australia

Area 51 menggelar pameran di National Atomic Testing Museum di Las Vegas, Amerika Serikat (AS), Senin (26/3). Di hari pertama, Area 51 pamer artefak UFO. Seperti apa?

Di pameran bertajuk ‘Area 51: Myth or Reality’ itu, Area 51 memamerkan rekaman sejarah yang terjadi di tempat yang diklaim menjadi tempat paling rahasia di AS. Pesawat mata-mata U2 dan A-12 yang secara rutin diuji di Area 51 kini menjadi pajangan di pameran.

Tak hanya itu, sisa-sisa UFO alien yang jatuh di dekat Roswell, Rusia, pada 1947 juga dipamerkan di pameran ini. Selain itu, ada pula tempat dengan tanda ‘Authentic Alien Artifact’ yang memuat beragam obyek, termasuk tabung berisi pecahan UFO di Rusia itu.

Di sisi lain, pembukaan pameran Area 51 ini membuat beberapa pihak beranggapan bahwa pemerintah mulai mengakui keberadaan UFO seperti dikutip HuffPost.

Sumber : http://teknologi.inilah.com/read/detail/1844727/area-51-pamer-artefak-ufo-ke-publik

Bisa dibayangkan, suatu hari nanti manusia mampu menemukan alien. Manusia menjelajah kosmos mencari sinyal radio mereka dan menemukannya. Namun apa yang terjadi kemudian?

Secara teori, kehidupan bisa muncul di Mars atau bulan Yupiter, Europa di mana keduanya tampak miliki lautan bawah tanah. “Ini konsisten dengan eksplorasi manusia di sistem surya, makhluk cerdas ini bisa berevolusi di lautan Europa,” kata astronom Jacob Haqq-Misra dari Pennsylvania State University.

Kemungkinan lain, Haqq-Misra mengatakan, makhluk luar bumi cerdas menempuh perjalanan dari sistem bintang jauh dan tinggal di tata surya. “Mereka mungkin hidup di markas rahasia di Mars atau bulan atau di sabuk asteroid,” lanjutnya.

Mengingat skenario ini, apa yang akan terjadi jika ras alien benar ditemukan? Saat ini banyak laporan muncul melaporkan penampakan piring terbang yang terus menginvasi psikologi manusia. Dari astronom hingga pengamat antropolog UFO memiliki skenarionya masing-masing.

Perjalanan penemuan

Menurut astronom senior Seth Shosta di SETI Institute di Mountain View, California, skenario kontak paling mungkin adalah, ras alien yang ditemukan akan sangat primitif. Asumsi ini berdasarkan kenyataan, alam semesta yang bisa dieksplorasi tak menunjukkan tanda-tanda menyembunyikan makhluk maju.

Selanjutnya, mengingat begitu sulitnya eksplorasi ruang angkasa, diperkirakan, penjelajah yang ada akan jauh lebih maju dari makhluk yang ditemukan. Hal ini mempermudah pembuatan protokol untuk pertemuan pertama, Jika saat mendarat di Mars atau Europa ditemukan alien dari trilobita, “Hal yang harus dilakukan seperti yang dilakukan Darwin, mengumpulkan sampel dan membawanya ke Bumi,” kata Shostak.

Tujuh langkah

Shostak mengatakan, ukuran alam semesta dan kesulitan menghadapi alam membuat kelangkaan kehidupan membuat dua makhluk ini berlomba kecerdasan. Penulis Robert Freitas yang menguraikan skenario kontak asing militer Amerika Serikat (AS) pada 1950 mengembangkan prosedur tujuh langkah kontak berdasarkan langkah-langkah logis.

Menurut langkah-langkah tersebut, manusia akan mulai melakukan pengawasan jarak jauh dan pengumpulan data, kemudian akhirnya beralih kepada kunjungan rahasia dengan tujuan mengukur karakteristik kinerja dari kendaraan dan persenjataan alien.

Jika semuanya berjalan lancar, manusia melakukan kunjungan singkat, mengamankan spesimen tanaman, hewan, dan makhluk-makhluk cerdas itu. Selanjutnya, manusia akan memperkenalkan diri dan menunjukkan eksistensi yang tak berbahaya. Terakhir, jika semua berjalan lancar, tak ada alasan kontak kedua ras ini menimbulkan bencana.

“Katakan misi masa depan untuk Europa ini mengungkap bukti tak terbantahkan makhluk atau peradaban cerdas,” kata Haqq-Misra. Eksplorasi terus dilakukan dan pada akhirnya manusia akan melakukan kontak, lanjutnya.

“Namun, ‘prinsip pencegahan’ akan menunda eksplorasi manusia hingga eksplorasi robot mengkonfirmasi penduduk Europa tak berbahaya,” katanya.

Alien menjajah

Di sisi lain, ada skenario kedua Haqq-Misra di mana ras alien dua kali lipat lebih pintar dari manusia. Sama seperti semut yang tak bisa memahami perilaku manusia, manusia tak mungkin memahami bagaimana lomba ini akan bereaksi pada manusia.

“(Astronom) Carl Sagan menduga, alien bisa bepergian antar bintang dan mereka melakukannya untuk agresi dan perang dan sebagainya,” kata Shostak. Menurutnya, agresi berkembang sebagai sifat di antara penghuni bumi karena membantu manusia mendapatkan dan melindungi sumber daya.

Meskipun alien mungkin berkembang dalam kondisi yang sama sekali berbeda, tekanan untuk mengamankan sumber daya yang terbatas mungkin akan membentuk perilaku mereka pula. “Saya duga, sumber daya akan terbatas di mana saja di alam semesta,” katanya.

Jika Sagan benar, maka umat yang bijaksana yang ditemui akan memperlakukan manusia dengan pertimbangan yang sangat besar dan rasa hormat, sementara mereka pun akan menggunakan teknologi untuk memastikan manusia memperlakukannya dengan cara yang sama.

Sumber : http://teknologi.inilah.com/read/detail/1848839/apa-yang-terjadi-jika-alien-benar-ditemukan




ShareThis





KLIK LIKE BILA ANDA SUKA ARTIKEL INI...!!!

Para peneliti Amerika Serikat (AS) menyatakan, lokasi kehidupan alien di tata surya memang sulit ditemukan. Namun ada dugaan kuat alien hidup di bulan Yupiter, Europa.

Bulan beku itu merupakan subyek konstan dan signifikan tembakan radiasi dan medan magnet Yupiter. Tembakan ini diketahui memusnahkan kehidupan di kedalaman dangkal Europa.

Hal ini membuat para ilmuwan melakukan percobaan untuk menentukan seberapa dalam kehidupan bisa hidup di bawah kerak Europa untuk bisa hidup.

“Teori sederhana seberapa dalam elektron bisa menembus kerak hanya dikenal pada elektron berenergi sangat tinggi,“ ungkap Murthy Gudipati dari Jet Propulsion Lab di Pasadena, Kalifornia, AS.

Gudipatai dan tim pun menempatkan detektor molekul di balik es yang ada kemudian menembakkan elektron. Hasilnya, tim ini menemukan radiasi 100MeV mampu menembus 23-32 inci es.

Sementara percobaan ini dianggap kurang signifikan, ada dugaan kuat jika tembakan elektron mampu menembus 0,6 meter bawah permukaan es, entitas organik yang ada akan hancur seperti dikutip UPI.

Sumber : http://teknologi.inilah.com/read/detail/1848923/kehidupan-alien-bersembunyi-di-europa




ShareThis





KLIK LIKE BILA ANDA SUKA ARTIKEL INI...!!!