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Adjective Clause: When to use it

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Look at the following sentences. They all have adjective clauses. Decide if you need to add commas before and after the adjective clause. Instead of an adjective clause, is there another way to write the sentence?

1. The boy who was hit by a car had to be taken to a nearby hospital.

2. Roger Nguyen who is the head of personnel will be on vacation next week.

3. The milk which is in the refrigerator has turned sour.

4. San Francisco which thousands of tourists visit every year is the number one tourist city in the United States.

5. My father who was hired by the company in 1965 retired yesterday at the age of 67.

6. The girl whose ball got stuck in a tree cried until her mother helped her get it down.

7. Patricia Kerman who is an English teacher at San Mateo College is our guest speaker this evening.

8. A new apartment building is going to be built on the empty lot which is around the corner from my house.

9. I took this photograph in which you can see both of my parents and my grandmother at the Grand Canyon last summer.

10. Mary doesn't like to go to places where they play loud music and people smoke a lot.