Frequently there is no connecting word, a relative pronoun being understood.
[Sidenote: _Examples of adjective clauses_.]
(1) _The subject_: "The themes _it offers for contemplation_ are too vast for their capacities;" "Those _who see the Englishman only in town_, are apt to form an unfavorable opinion of his social character."
(2) _The object_: "From this piazza Ichabod entered the hall, _which formed the center of the mansion_."
(3) _The complement_: "The animal he bestrode was a broken-down plow-horse, _that had outlived almost everything but his usefulness_;" "It was such an apparition _as is seldom to be met with in broad daylight_."
(4) _Other words_: "He rode with short stirrups, _which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle_;" "No whit anticipating the oblivion _which awaited their names and feats_, the champions advanced through the lists;" "Charity covereth a multitude of sins, in another sense than that _in which it is said to do so in Scripture_."
Pick out the adjective clauses, and tell what each one modifies; i.e., whether subject, object, etc.
1. There were passages that reminded me perhaps too much of Massillon.
2. I walked home with Calhoun, who said that the principles which I had avowed were just and noble.
3. Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
4. In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other, it seems a pity that we can only spend it once.
5. One of the maidens presented a silver cup, containing a rich mixture of wine and spice, which Rowena tasted.
6. No man is reason or illumination, or that essence we were looking for.
7. In the moment when he ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect.
8. Socrates took away all ignominy from the place, which could not be a prison whilst he was there.
9. This is perhaps the reason why we so seldom hear ghosts except in our long-established Dutch settlements.
10. From the moment you lose sight of the land you have left, all is vacancy.
11. Nature waited tranquilly for the hour to be struck when man should arrive.
377. The adverb clause takes the place of an adverb in modifying a verb, a verbal, an adjective, or an adverb. The student has met with many adverb clauses in his study of the subjunctive mood and of subordinate conjunctions; but they require careful study, and will be given in detail, with examples.