a happy moment blue sky

　　a girl student bus station

　　a monkey in the tree the article about your experience in the UK

　　Point out a noun, an adjective or the prepositional phrases can be used to modify a noun. Summarize the rule of the order in these examples.

　　We put adjectives or nouns before nouns to modify them while we put prepositional phrases after nouns to modify them.

　　An example on the blackboard

　　Adjective: the green team

　　Prepositional phrase: the team in green

　　Attributive clause: the team who are wearing green.

　　Point out that the last sentence is an attributive clause. That means a sentence is used to modify a noun. The nouns they modify are called antecedents.

　　Write the following words on the blackboard.

　　Attributive clause antecedent

　　→Step 2 Introduction to attributive clauses

　　Give some examples of attributive clauses on the blackboard.

　　1. The girl who/that is standing next to our teacher is her daughter.

　　2. The girl whom/who/that my mother is talking to is my classmate.

　　3. The girl whose name is Rose sits next to me.

　　4. I can't find the book which/that is borrowed from you.

　　5. I can't find the book which/that you lent to me.

　　6. I can't find the book whose cover/the cover of which is red.

　　Ask the students to find out antecedents, relative pronouns and functions of the relative pronoun and fill in the form below.

Example Antecedent Attributive clause Function of the relative pronoun 1 the girl who/that is standing next to our teacher subject 2 the girl (whom/who/that)my mother is talking to object 3 the girl whose name is Rose possessive 4 the book which/that is borrowed from you subject 5 the book (which/that) you lent to me object 6 the book whose cover/the cover of which possessive 　　Tell the students that the noun or the antecedent usually refers to a person/people or a thing/things, for example a story, a cake, books and so on. We use which/that as a relative pronoun to refer to things, while we use who/whom/that as a relative pronoun to refer to people. Which/that is used as the subject or object in the attributive clause. Who/that is used as the subject in the attributive clause and whom/who/that is used as the object in the attribute clause. And they will know when which, that, whom, who can be left out if it refers to an object in the attributive clause.

　　→Step 3 Practice

　　Show the following sentences on the blackboard.

　　1. I don't know the man. The man wrote the article.

　　2. The paintings are being displayed in the assembly hall. David donated the paintings to the school.

　　3. She has a brother. I can't remember his name.

　　4. You made a cake yesterday. It was delicious.

5. The river flows to the sea. The banks of the river are covered with trees.