hey guys i'm alex thanks for clicking
and welcome to this lesson on
adjective clauses and quantifiers okay
now if you want to know what an
adjective clause is you can check out
any number of the lessons on engvid.com
that we have done in the past on this
subject today we are focusing on
adjective clauses with quantifiers now
quantifiers are words that show
number essentially right so here we have
a bunch of sentences a quantifier like
both
one
all
okay it can be a number one two three
four it can be a lot it can be a
percentage even okay
so here we have um well we actually have
six sentences but let's say three sets
of sentences
and i want you to tell me how can you
combine these two sentences into one
okay so we have the first sentence it
says chris has two sisters
both of them smoke
now if you know uh
anything about adjective clauses you
know that there are two types there can
be identifying non-identifying
non-identifying means it's extra
information
one thing you should know about
adjective clauses with quantifiers
they are always going to be
non-identifying
means it's always extra information so
this information about chris's sisters
both of them smoke
is non-essential information okay let's
put this together though so we can say
chris
has two sisters
and as you know with adjective clauses
non-identifying you put a comma
both
of
now we have them
hmm what do you know about adjective
clauses you always use relative pronouns
right so what are some relative pronouns
and adjective clauses we have who whom
that which whose where when
in this situation which one of those do
you think we use
okay if you said whom you are absolutely
correct
okay but you're saying wait alex i
learned that in adjective clauses we
only use whom
when the subject is receiving an action
okay in this situation the sisters smoke
they're doing the action it should be
both of who smoke
actually in this situation um
whom
it doesn't matter it doesn't matter if
it's subject object who's doing the
action receiving the action you're
always going to be
using whom in the quantifier okay
here we have nikki has two phones one of
them is broken
so we can say
nikki
has
two phones
one
of
okay we have them so what do you think
which whom who that where when whose
okay
as we know a phone is an object with
objects you use which
now you're saying we can use which or
that um however in adjective clauses
with quantifiers such as this we can't
say one of that is broken we can only
use which for objects
okay so whom for people
which for objects and finally we have
tom's a writer
all of his books are popular so we're
talking about tom but we're also talking
about his books right in the second part
of the sentence so because we're talking
about his books this is a possessive so
with possessives we know that we use
who's
tom's
a writer
all of
whose books
are
popular
okay so what i have just shown you are
the three relative pronouns that we use
with quantifiers and adjective clauses
and the only three you need to know for
this
structure are
whom
which
and whose okay
so
again you can see the construction here
you have a quantifier both one
all
you always have of
okay so both of one of
um
all of and then you have the relative
pronoun both of whom
one of which
all of whose
and again whom for people
which for objects
whose for possessives and let me just
show you one more little thing about
this structure and then you guys can do
the quiz
okay so in the previous examples you saw
the adjective clause with its quantifier
in the second part of the sentence that
is not the only possible position
as you can see in these two sentences it
is also possible to put the adjective
clause with the quantifier in the middle
of the sentence so here we have jk
rowling comma
all of whose books are popular
comma
is a great writer so we're saying jk
rowling is a great writer and here you
have the quantifier you're giving extra
information about her you're saying all
of her books are popular all of whose
books are popular is a great writer
in the second example the movie comma
most of which was boring comma
made me fall asleep
so you're saying the movie made me fall
asleep and in the middle part you're
giving extra information just like a
regular adjective clause and you're
saying that most of which was boring
most of what the movie right most of the
movie
was boring okay guys so just so you
understand you can put the adjective
clause with the quantifier at the end of
the sentence in the second part you can
also put it in the middle
after the subject that you're trying to
describe in this case jk rowling the
author of harry potter and here you have
the movie whatever the movie was right
okay guys if you want to test your
knowledge of this you can check out the
quiz on angvid.com good luck
you