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What is an adjective clause in English grammar?

Ridhi Arora
Ridhi Arora
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 689 Views

An adjective clause is a clause which performs the function of an adjective in a sentence. The adjective is a word which modifies a noun or pronoun in a sentence. For example, a tall man, (where tall is an adjective) etc.The adjective clause may be introduced by a relative pronoun (whom, which, that, who etc) or relative adverb (where, when, after, before etc).Examples of the Adjective ClauseRam, who is the monitor of our class, is intelligent.She is the neighbor, whose dog is Ill-behaved.Give me a reason why should I believe you.Here, 'who is the monitor of the class' in the ...

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What is the significance of dandy in Oscar Wilde's plays?

Ridhi Arora
Ridhi Arora
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 560 Views

By the last decade of the nineteenth century, Drama as an occupation and the theatre as a profession had undergone huge changes. In the last three decades of the century with the famous playwrights Oscar Wilde (1865-1900), George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Sydney Grundy (1848-1914) the theatre began to gain a refined literary tone.Wilde’s Writing StyleWilde managed to collaborate the attributes, from a wide range of styles, practices, and genres, from drama, fiction and lyric, into finely patterned theatre events. He used satire, a scintillating wit, symbolism, literariness and farcical situations in his plays. His plays are aristocratic in its outlook, ...

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Do they have the word "dictionary" in the dictionary?

Jaya P
Jaya P
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 1K+ Views

Yes. We can find the word dictionary in a dictionary. When I referred to the Oxford Dictionary, I came across the following meaning.Dictionary: A book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning, or gives the equivalent words in a different language, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage.Usage:-- ‘I'll look up 'love' in the dictionary’-- ‘the website gives access to an online dictionary’

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Who is known as the Father of Internet?

Tejas Charukula
Tejas Charukula
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 3K+ Views

Vinton G. Cerf is known as the “Father of the Internet". He is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. The US President, Bill Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the wonderful creation of the Internet in December 1997.The contribution of Cerf and his colleagues have been acknowledged and applauded all over the world. Today, we cannot imagine our lives without the Internet.Vint Cerf has been awarded many honorary degrees and prizes that include the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of ...

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What happens if it rains in the desert?

Samrat T
Samrat T
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 842 Views

There are many interesting answers to this question. But I found one very fascinating and amazing phenomenon. When it rains suddenly in the Atacama desert in Chile, which is the driest non-polar desert on Earth, there will be a sudden spur of life in the desert.If the desert gets heavy rainfall during their spring season which is October and November, there will be a sudden bloom of the flowers ‘hibernating’ beneath its surface. It fills the entire desert with an explosion of color by the flowers coming to their full bloom which is eagerly waiting for the rain, leaving the place ...

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