As the fox carried her on his back through the forest, she held on tightly.

The old couple were crying inside because they were so worried about the snow girl.

Adjective Clause: Modifies the noun it follows

• a person who
• someone/something that
• a person whose
• a place where
• a time when
  
  

The children who lived in the village all loved to play with her.

She didn't trust any animal that might eat her, like the bear and the wolf.

She was a make-believe person whose blood was ice.

The bear, the wolf, and the fox all asked her what she was crying about. (Always use sentence word order in noun clauses.)

She believed that she would be safest with the fox.

You can determine the type of dependent clause by its placement in the sentence as well as by its function as indicated in the table above.

• An adverb clause can come before or after the independent clause.
• An adjective clause follows the noun it modifies.
• A noun clause follows the verb when it functions as the object of a transitive verb or as the complement of a linking verb. It comes before the verb if it functions as the subject of the verb.
  
  

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