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Adjectival Clauses vs. Appositives. What’s the difference?. Adjectival Clauses. Appositives. Renames the noun The flu, a silent stalker , looms on often touched surfaces, waiting to infect its victim. Tells “which one”
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What’s the difference? Adjectival Clauses Appositives Renames the noun The flu, a silent stalker, looms on often touched surfaces, waiting to infect its victim. • Tells “which one” • The flu is a disease which looms on often touched surfaces, waiting to infect its victim. • Starts with a relative pronoun: which, who, whose, whom, that
Adjectival Clauses • The lady who drives our bus is crazy. • “Dead animals were routinely tossed into this soup, where everything decayed and sent up noxious bubbles to foul the air.”
Two word adjectives… • When you describe something using two words and those two words are acting as one… you hyphenate (-) the words. • The beast-like man… • A well-balanced meal… • The blue-green sea.