AN ANALYSIS OF ADJECTIVE CLAUSES FOUND IN JANE
GREEN’S NOVEL ANOTHER PIECE OF MY HEART
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NURHALIMATUSA’DIAH
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ... i
COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ... ii
ABSTRACT ... iii
3.1 Total of Adjective Clauses Found in Jane Green’s Novel Another Piece of My Heart ... 13
3.2 The Dominant Adjective Clause Found in Jane Green’s Novel Another Piece of My Heart ... 47
4. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ... 49
4.1 Conclusions ... 49
4.2 Suggestions ... 49
REFERENCES ... 50
LIST OF TABLES
Table 2.1 Types and Functions of Noun Clause ... 7
Table 2.2 Types of Adverbial Clauses ... 10
Table 2.3 Types of Adjective Clauses ... 12
Table 3.1 Total of Adjective Clauses Found in the Novel ... 47
ABSTRACT
ABSTRAK
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Language is the most important thing in making interactions with other
people in all parts of the world. People can communicate with others either
spoken or written language by making statements, explaining report, and
expressing ideas. Without language, people will have never been able to have a
relation with others.
Winston and Rinehart (1993:21)say that language is the same no matter
what system of writing may be used to record it, just as a person is the same no
matter how you take his picture; the most of the languages that are spoken today
has been applied either in relatively recent times or not to all.
Yet another definition sees language as a system of communication that
enables humans to exchange verbal or symbolic utterances. This definition
stresses the social functions of language and the fact that humans use it to express
themselves and to manipulate objects in their environment
understand the grammatical structures of language to be the result of an adaptive
process by which grammar was "tailored" to serve the communicative needs of its
users.
A clause is included in English grammar. Generally, a clause is a group
of words containing a subject and a verb. It may be either a sentence, an
independent clause or a sentence-like construction within another sentence, a
clause. Some clauses, however, cannot stand alone as sentences: in this
case, they are dependent clauses or subordinate clauses.
Clauses can take the place of different parts of speech. Similarly, an
adjective clause can take the place of an adjective. Adjective clauses have a
subject and a verb (or predicate). They will start with a relative pronoun, like: that,
who, whom, whose, or which, or a relative adverb, like why, where, or when.
Adjective clauses function as an adjective and modify nouns and pronouns. They
are also called relative clauses.
Just as the other dependent clauses, the
a complete thought. It does not need commas separating it from the rest of the
sentence if it has essential information in it; that is if you need the information it
provides. If it gives additional information, then you use commas. A good way to
test for this is to leave out the clause, read the sentence, and see if the meaning of
the two sentences is different.
Many people are fairly comfortable with the idea of adjectives, but they
might not feel so confident when it comes to the idea of an adjective clause.
Adjective clauses come in a variety of forms; therefore, breaking down the study
into its basic components is essential to the proper learning of the form. Using
adjective clauses in everyday speech is a fairly common practice, as adjective
clauses add often crucial information to sentences. However, learning to
differentiate between the various types can be difficult. If a person is in a
positionwhere he or she has to decide which form the adjective clause is taking,
The writer chooses the novel named Another Piece of My Heart because
it contains a lot of adjective clauses. The writer wants to know what the dominant
of adjective clause found in the novel is.
1.2 Problem of the Study
The problem of this study can be defined as below:
1) How many adjective clauses found in the novel?
2) What is the dominant adjective clause found in the novel?
1.3 Scope of the Study
In English, there are many kinds of clauses, such as noun clause, adverbial
clause and adjective clause. In this study, the writer limits the analysis on
adjective clauses.
1.4 Purpose of the Study
The purpose of the study can be defined as below:
1. To find out the adjective clauses in the novel.
2. To find out the number of the dominant adjective clauses in the novel.
1.5 Method of the Study
The writer uses library research in writing this paper. Library research is
the technique of data collection by research to gather as much information
relevant to the topic. Source can be gotten from literature: scientific books,
journals, and other sources of suitable like internet.
The writer will collect all the required data from Jane Green’s novel
clauses. There are about 413 adjective clauses found in the novel as the data
source.
The writer uses analysis method in analyzing the data. Analysis method
of research is where the person doing the research presents it in an analysis
manner. The analysis research designs enable researchers to analyze or present the
picture of a phenomenon or phenomena under investigation.
The steps or procedures in analyzing the data :
1. Reading Another Piece of My Heart novel.
2. Identifying the sentences contain adjective clause.
3. Classifying the adjective clauses.
4. Analyzing the data by counting the number of adjective clauses and the
dominant adjective clause into percentages of their usage in the novel.
To get the percentage of adjective clauses used in the novel, the writer
uses the Nawawi’s formula (1991:150) as the following:
X = Number of adjective clauses
Y = Total number of all data
N = Percentage of the adjective clauses
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2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Veit (1986:6) states that grammar is a person’s subconscious language
knowledge. The structure of expressions consists of the structure of words,
phrases, clauses and sentences. Clause comes from the combination of words.
Words are divided into different kinds or classes, called parts of speech, according
to their use; that is, according to the work they do in a sentence. Wren and Martin
(1986:4) states that the Parts of Speech are eight in number they are noun,
adjective, pronoun, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction and interjection. Phrase
is a group of words that functions in a sentence as a single part of speech. It does
not have a subject or a verb. Rozakis (2003:102) says that phrase consists of
prepositional phrase, adjective phrase, adverbial phrase, appositive phrase, verbal
phrase, participle phrase, gerund phrase, and infinitive phrase.
The combination of clause forms sentences. This means everyone needs
to understand clause first so that they can write sentences well. Based on that
reason, this paper attempts to discuss about clauses and more specifically the
adjective clause.
2.1 Definition of Clause
Azar (1985:220) says that a clause is a structure that has a subject and a
verb. There are two kinds of clauses: independent clause and dependent clause.
An independent clause is a complete sentence. It contains the main subject and
verb of a sentence. It can stand alone as a sentence. It is also called a main clause.
A dependent clause is not a complete sentence. It must be connected to an
McClelland and Marcotte (2003:232) state that a clause is a group of
words that has both a subject and a verb. There are two kinds of clauses in
English: independent clauses and dependent clauses. An independent clause is a
complete thought. The meaning is clear. There are no questions in your mind. An
independent clause is a sentence (S - V - C). For example:
1) Financial aid is sometimes available. (the meaning is clear)
2) Most students want to stay in school (the meaning is clear)
3) Students often look for jobs on campus (the meaning is clear)
A dependent clause is not a complete idea. A dependent clause often has
a S – V – C, but it is not a sentence because the meaning is not clear. There is a
question in your mind. You need more information. For example:
1) When students miss too many classes what happens?
2) If parents can’t find dependable child care what happens?
3) If a student has serious financial problems what happens?
Frank (1972) says that there are three types of dependent clauses: noun
clause, adverbial clause and adjective clause. They will be discussed one by one.
2.2 Kinds of Clauses
2.2.1 Noun Clause
Frank (1972:62) says that noun clause consists of a subject and predicate
that functions as a noun. One of its most common functions is as the object of a
verb, especially of a verb of asserting or mental activity. If such a verb is in the
may be classified according to the kinds of sentences from which they are derived;
statements, questions, requests, exclamations.
Table 2.1 Types and Functions of Noun Clause
Types
1) That coffee grows in Brazil is well known to all. (subject)
2) It is well known that coffee grows in Brazil. (subject after it)
3) My understanding is that coffee grows in Brazil. (subjective complement)
4) I know that coffee grows in Brazil. (Objectof verb)
Question
1) Whether he gets the money doesn’t concern me. (Subject)
2) The question is whether he will get the money. (Subjective complement)
3) Do you know if he will get the money? (Object of verb)
4) We were concerned about whether he would get the money. (Object of
preposition)
5) How he gets themoneyis his own affair. (Subject)
6)The question is how he will get the money.(Subjective complement)
7)I don’t know how he will get the money. (Object of verb)
8)We were concerned about how he would get the money.(Object of preposition)
Request
1) He suggested that I write the letter soon.(Object of verb)
Exclamation
1) I hadn’t realized what a pretty girl she was. (Object of verb)
2)We talked aboutwhat a pretty girl she was. (Object of preposition)
2.2.2 Adverbial Clause
Frank (1972:23) says that an adverbial clause consists of a subject and
predicate introduced by a subordinate conjunction like when, although, because
clause. An adverbial clause may be used in initial position, final position, and
occasionally in mid-position with the main verb of the sentence. A comma usually
appears after an introductory clause, but is much less common before a clause in
final position. A clause in mid-position must be set off with commas.
Examples:
1) When he comes, you may call me out. (Initial)
2) He invited me, although I refused, to attend his wedding ceremony. (Middle)
3) Shut all the windows before you go out. (Final)
Table 2.2 Types of Adverbial Clauses
1) Adverbial Clause of Time
2) Adverbial Clause of Place 3) Adverbial Clause of Concession 4) Adverbial Clause of Result 5) Adverbial Clause of Purpose
6) Adverbial Clause of Condition
7) Adverbial Clause of Reason 8) Adverbial Clause of Manner 9) Adverbial Clause of Comparison
When, while, as, before, after, until, since.
Where, wherever.
Although, though, even though. So, that, so that, such a…that.
In order that, so that, that, in the hope that.
If, unless, if only, on condition that, in case, as long as, so long as, provided that, in the event that.
Because, since, as, in as much as. As
As…as, so…as, more…than, less…than.
Examples:
1) The new machine works just as efficiently as the old one did.
2) The gown we saw yesterday is less expensive than this one.
3) You may do it as you like.
5) So long as someone is willing to treat her, she would go to the movies.
6) He sat in the front row, so that he heard every word of the lecture.
7) We will be glad to go with you to the theatre tonight provided that we can get
a baby-sitter.
2.2.3 Adjective Clause
Wren and Martin (1986:23) stated that adjective is a word used with a
noun to describe, or point out, the person, animal, place or thing which the noun
names, or to tell the number or quantity. Azar (1992) says that adjectives describe
nouns. In grammar, we say that adjectives modify nouns. The word modify means
“change a little”. Adjectives give a little different meaning to a noun: intelligent
student, lazy student, good student. An adjective is neither singular nor plural. A
final –s is never added to an adjective.Jones and Mann (2001:36) say that
adjectives can also describe qualities like feelings and emotions or abstract
concepts, for example, sharp pain; fierce anger; genuine integrity
Adjectives are also used in adjective clauses. Wren and Martin
(1986:264) stated that an adjective clause is a group of words which contains a
subject and a predicate of its own, and does the work of an adjective. Azar
(1992:238) says that an adjective clause is a dependent clause that modifies a
noun. It describes, identifies, or gives further information about a noun. As we
have known, an adjective clause in a complex sentence is a subordinate clause
which does the work of an adjective, and so qualifies some noun or pronoun in the
whom, whose, that, which or by a relative adverb such as when, where, and why.
An adjective clause is also called relative clause.
Thomson and Martinet (1984:43) say that there are three kinds of relative
clauses, they are defining relative clauses, non-defining relative clauses and
connective relative clauses. The relative pronouns used in the adjective clauses
can refer to persons, things, places, times and reason. Those relative pronouns can
take different functions in an adjective clause, they are relative pronoun as
subject, relative pronoun as object of verb, relative pronoun as object of
preposition and relative pronoun as possessive.
Table 2.3 Types of Adjective Clauses
No. Noun Meaning Relative Pronoun
1) A person
Who
Whom
Whose
That
2) A thing
Which
That
3) A time When
4) A place Where
Examples:
1) I met a man who is kind to everybody.
2) The river which flows through town is polluted.
3) Grandpa remembers the old days when there was no television.
4) Bandar Lampung is a city where I was born.
5) Making noise when he eats is the main reason why Sue does not like to eat
3. ANALYSIS
3.1 Total of Adjective Clauses Found in Jane Green’s Novel Another Piece of
My Heart
To get the total of adjective clauses found in Jane Green’s novel Another
Piece of My Heart, the writer divided the adjective clauses based on its kinds. The
finding and total of adjective clauses found in Jane Green’s novel Another Piece
of My Heart can be seen as below. The writer finds out there are five kinds of
adjective clauses (a person, a thing, a time, a place and a reason).
3.1.1 Adjective clauses refer to a person (who, whom, whose, that)
1) She started offering her services as a “home-stager”—someone who would
come in and beautify the interiors, for minimum cost, in order to sell. (Page
6)
2) He’d started mowing lawns himself, paying a cheap hourly rate to Carlos and
Jorge, who had recently made the arduous trek from Mexico. (Page 7).
3) Gorgeous girls, dark-haired, dark-eyed, who clearly adored their
father.(Page 8)
4) She needs the security of a loving family, of brothers and sisters, of a
stepmother who will love her. (Page 9)
5) Several months later, Andi, who hated going to the doctor unless she
thought she was truly dying, went to the doctor. (Page 12)
6) Andi had said, but that was largely due to a stepdaughter who hated her
she didn’t actually tell the doctor that part), and to a husband who refused to
do anything other than tell his daughter he understood her pain. (Page 13)
7) “Fuck you!” she shouted, throwing the car keys at her father, who ducked, so
they hit the door frame, leaving a small chip and a grey mark. (Page 14)
8) This is not okay, and she cannot withhold it from him, not least because she is
worried for Emily, terrified that her life is spinning out of control, and the
only person who may be able to stop it is her father. (Page 17)
9) She wasn’t a kid who did such things. (page 18)
10) The only kids Andi knew in high school who were potheads dropped out,
then went on to … nothing. (Page 18)
11) She is the sort of girl whom everyone thought would always be at the head
of the class. (Page 18).
12) She is the one who should be looking after the children. (page 23)
13) Emily is there, in their room, glaring daggers at Andi, who feels nothing
other than exhaustion. (Page 24)
14) Andi laments later to Ethan, who is tentatively sinking down on their bed.
(Page 25)
15) Isabel is a childhood friend who landed in San Francisco a year or so
before Andi. (Page 28)
16) When Andi first moved into Ethan’s house, next door there was a crotchety
old couple who wasn’t the slightest bit interested in being friends with
Andi or Ethan and seemed to hate all children, particularly ones whose
17) Everyone who came in was horrified. (Page 29)
18) She married because she found a man she loves, a man who makes her
happy. (Page 35)
19) Andi may not have children of her own, but she is a child, a beloved only
child of parents who doted on her but still had rules, and who were strict.
(Page 36)
20) He isn’t, she realizes, but there is something about him that is mesmerizing.
(Page 39)
21) Andi, who ranges anywhere from a ten, nods. (Page 40)
22) She has heard herself saying to friends who have confessed to feelings they
shouldn’t be feeling for men who are not their husbands. (Page 41)
23) Technically, Andi still calls herself a home-stager although most of the clients
who go on to sell their homes thanks to Andi’s staging then ask her to help
them decorate their new houses. (Page 44)
24) “Isabel says there’s an artist who leases the barn, and this is his work.”(Page
50)
25) “Boundaries.” That loaded word is bandied about by people who think they
know everything about parenting. (Page 57)
26) She was the only child of older parents who had given up on the desire to
have children. (Page 57)
27) Her gaze ending on Greg, who is already wiping a tear from his eye. (Page
28) They stand together, holding hands as Drew, who qualified as a minister in
order to marry them. (Page 64)
29) This is an Emily she hasn’t seen before, an Emily who is fully cognizant of
her sexuality, who knows exactly how to use it. (Page 66)
30) “She’s drunk,” Andi mouthed to Ethan, who gave her a look of disdain.
(Page 69)
31) Sophia counts off the hours until snack time, whereupon her teacher will
dispense crackers for the kids who forgot the snack. (Page 71)
32) Children who are so neglected when they are at their mother’s, if they’re
lucky, manage to get enough money to go down to the deli and get their own
dinner. (Page 72)
33) She has heard the entire story from Ethan, and lately, from Sophia, who
would never directly criticize her mother. (Page 72)
34) Sophia, who had been about to turn eleven, had wandered into the kitchen
just in time to hear Ethan ask one of their friends what they would like to
drink. (Page 72)
35) She came across Ethan, talking to a woman whose face was hidden by a
mop of thick, curly blond hair. (Page 74)
36) Now, though, Sophia is finding she is more frequently in the line of fire, for
no other reason than she is the one who is there. (Page 78)
37) When younger, Emily had always expressed an interest in writing, and Ethan,
has set up an interview with a small publisher who is looking for an intern.
(Page 81)
38) Ethan looks at Andi, who shrugs. (Page 86)
39) And I bet she doesn’t have an evil older sister who tries to make her life a
misery. (Page 87)
40) And the woman who did surround her, in a bid to help her, play into that.
(Page 88)
41) The friends who have provided a constant light in the tempest that comes
in the form of Emily. (Page 89)
42) They don’t have a sitter for their two children, Griffin and Sydney, who is
one of Sophia’s best friends, but they have a cook and a cleaner who come
every day. (Page 89)
43) Deanna is a yoga teacher and, of late, Andi’s closest friend, the one to whom
she turns if ever she needs to talk. (Page 90)
44) Deanna became a Buddhist, and has always been the calm one of the group,
the girl who listens instead of shouting everyone else down in their
exuberance and excitement, the one who thoughtfully and calmly imparts
words of wisdom. (Page 90)
45) She has one child, Francesca, whom Sophia was superfriendly with in
fourth grade. (Page 90)
46) Deanna was the one who gently suggested Andi would benefit from yoga.
47) She caught the eye of a wiry blond woman who flashed a huge smile at her
and beckoned her over. (Page 91)
48) These women, together with Ethan, were the ones who surrounded her and
eased her pain when her mother died. (Page 92)
49) He is Grandpa O now, to everyone who knows him. (Page 92)
50) The stern but loving father of her youth has been replaced with a little old
man who is soft and smiley, whose eyes crinkle when he catches sight of the
girls. (Page 92)
51) To Andi’s amazement, they had morphed from the formal, reserved, rather
awkward parents of her own childhood, to wonderful, warm, natural
grandparents who showered the girls with love. (Page 93)
52) Andi turned to thank Ethan, who hadn’t stopped stroking her back the
entire time. (Page 93)
53) Deanna, who ate no sugar, refined flour, or meat, wordlessly stood up from
her position on the kitchen stool. (Page 94)
54) The men weren’t eyeing the woman seductively, but rather to see who was a
good dancer, whom they would choose next. (Page 98)
55) She was only ever asked to dance by men who had just entered the club,
who hadn’t a chance to watch her on the floor, and, of course, by Drew,
who was brought into the salsa club for precisely that reason. (Page 99)
56) She has been dancing with a tall man who does not speak English. (Page 99)
58) You’re a middle-aged married woman who’s completely discombobulated.
(Page 103)
59) There are those who say that in order for someone to stray. (Page 105)
60) I am not the sort of person who would have an affair,Andi tells herself,
sipping from an ice-cold margarita and trying to focus her attention on
Dianna, who is telling them a story. (Page 105)
61) Is anyone the sort of person who would have an affair? Who likes to think
of themselves as the sort of person who would commit adultery? (Page 105)
62) She thinks of today’s young stars, the celebrities who surround themselves
with lawyers able to reduce the severity of any consequences. (Page 108)
63) He is staying with your younger sister, who doesn’t deserve the shit you put
her through. (Page 112)
64) What choice does she have, a seventeen-year-old who has been drinking
and doing God knows what drugs during a pregnancy. (Page 114)
65) Ethan, so accustomed to Emily’s tantrums, cannot understand how they undo
Andi, who cannot do this for very much longer. (Page 118)
66) You are the only one who can give her the power to destroy you. (Page
121)
67) I need to be with someone who doesn’t have kids. (Page 122)
68) No husband who has to leave in the middle of the night to collect the kids.
(Page 122)
70) “I once knew someone,” Deanna says quietly, “who had a wonderful
husband, and a small baby.” (Page 123)
71) Eventually, she found a student who would come in every day. (Page 124)
72) She felt like a harassed mother who had lost all sense of self. (Page 124)
73) She’d be making dinner for her husband, who would always get home later
than planned. (Page 125)
74) It just felt so good to have someone who could see into her soul. (Page 125)
75) She became the woman who climbed out of her lover’s bed and into her
husband’s. (Page 125)
76) She wanted her husband, who was also” – Deanna gives Andi a pointed look
– “the best man in the world.” (Page 127)
77) “You can go in in a minute,” she tells Ethan and Andi, who sit outside. (Page
131)
78) There are so many families who are unable to have children, who would
give this child a loving and wonderful home. (Page 132)
79) The doctor lays a hand on Ethan’s, who is now as white as a sheet. (Page
132)
80) There are women out there who are longing to be mothers, who would give
anything to be in the position Emily is in right now. (Page 132)
81) It is mostly alcoholics who have babies with FAS. (Page 133)
82) I have to begin meeting prospective couples who will adopt this baby. (Page
83) This baby, who is Ethan’s grandchild, is going to be given away to a couple
who are desperate for a baby but who can’t have one. (Page 139)
84) “So what else is new?” Drew says, and Andi, who would normally smile,
shrugs. (Page 139)
85) He was the one who totally got me through. (Page 146)
86) You’re the one who became this big freaky popular jock. (Page 148)
87) There was nobody in the world who knew me anymore, and nobody in the
world who loved me. (Page 149)
88) She’s the one who usually warns me about Mom (page 149)
89) I’m the only one who refuses, who sees what’s really going on. (Page 151)
90) There are a couple of guys who are older who hang out with us. (page 153)
91) We’re going to find some nice couple who will take this baby and raise it
and give it a life filled with love. (Page 153)
92) She got a sponsor- a woman named Maureen who had fifteen years of
sobriety. (Page 155)
93) She looked around the meetings at all the people who were sober, envied
them their lives. (Page 156)
94) She was barely in her twenties at the time, so much younger than the other
mothers, all of who seemed to be in their thirties. (page 157)
95) She remembers hearing about a playgroup that had started with a selection
of other mothers. (Page 157)
96) Brooke’s being a single mother who is struggling to get by, despite the
97) Everyone who came over commented on them. (Page 168)
98) There’s this photographer, Nan Goldin, who took this amazing photographs
of her friends in, I think, the seventies or eighties, in New York. (Page 168)
99) I’m not one of those martyrs who plans on natural childbirth and
breathing. (Page 169)
100) She’s all mine, the one person in the world who’s going to love me
unconditionally. (Page 169)
101) She’s not going to be one of these kids that stop my life. (Page 171)
102) I need someone who understands, and Andi’s the closest thing I’ve got.
(Page 172)
103) Ethan was the one who stepped in to mediate and sort it out. (Page 180)
104) Particularly Topher, to whom he has turned on numerous occasions
when he has been pushed to the edge of sanity by Brooke. (Page 186)
105) She’s probably going to give me that disdainful, dismissive look they give
all the girls who pass them in the cafeteria. (Page 188)
106) Somewhere far away from the bitchy girls at school, from the people who
instinctively knew what I thought was my secret. (Page 188)
107) She had picked out online, a couple who lives six hours away, who have
flown in to try to persuade Emily. (Page 200)
108) We are the people who raise the babies that no one wants. (Page 201)
109) A seventeen-year-old daughter who becomes pregnant, step in as the
110) The reason she has found herself struggling even to look at the man who
was once the center of her world. (Page 202)
111) She’ll be the kind of mom who encourages her daughter with
everything. (Page 206)
112) “You don’t look like the sort of person who would sleep on the park
bench.” (Page 206)
113) She looks from Andi to my dad, then to the adoption counselor, who looks
down at her papers. (Page 207)
114) So my mom’s an alcoholic who doesn’t want anything to do with me.
(Page 208)
115) You seem like really nice people, but this is a kid who is going to come
with a whole lot of problems. (Page 208)
116) I look at my dad, who looks as if he’s shell-shocked. (Page 208)
117) Since we met the couple who wanted to adopt the Bean, after meeting
me they no longer wanted to adopt the Bean. (Page 214)
118) Since the pregnancy, she’s been the only one who’s okay with it. (Page
219)
119) Turning her head, she blinks, gazing at Andi, who looks over and smiles,
reaching out and squeezing her hand reassuringly. (Page 227)
120) Both of them unable to tear their eyes away from the perfect baby boy
who is inside the room. (Page 233)
121) Because she’s the one who seems completely entranced by my baby.
122) She had no idea what it feels like to have your life taken away so abruptly,
and by a baby who never stops screaming. (Page 244)
123) And River, who looked like the hippie’s granddaughter, beamed a
beatific smile right back at her. (Page 245)
124) River was the only one who seemed to love every second. (Page 245)
125) Except Brooke was the one who had given Emily enough money to
enable her to leave. (Page 257)
126) Brooke had put Emily in touch with a friend in Seattle, who gave Emily a
room in her house. (Page 257)
127) I am the one who has raised him, who gives him a bath, who cradles
him on my lap as we rock together, who tucks him in and kisses him
good night, who goes in five minutes later because I cannot bear to be
away from him and who pulls a chair up to the side of his “big boy
bed”. (Page 258)
128) Here was a wonderful man who loved her, who was good to her, and
who she increasingly realized, she loved in return. (Page 263)
129) When she was so unhappy, to let herself be pulled into an affair, if not
with Pete, then with someone else, someone who offered her a glimpse of
the greener grass elsewhere. (Page 264)
130) I want to go back and tell her, the overweight girl who never felt good
enough, the child who was always screamed at by her mother, that it’s
131) Michael was the one who spotted me first, and I can’t have changed that
much. (Page 271)
132) Deanna, who teaches the client yoga, suggested she might want to meet
Andi to fully take advantage of the newly renovated room. (Page 288)
133) All against the advice of her sponsor, who advised her to wait for a year
before embarking on any romantic relationships, particularly those with
people who were managing their own sobriety. (Page 293)
134) She was careful to keep it light, not to give Emily a guilt trip, for it was,
after all, Brooke who had given Emily the money to go away. (Page
293)
135) Emily, who has never discussed this with her mother, knew she had her
mother back. (Page 295)
136) And with her, holding her hand, is a very little person who looks a bit like
me. (Page 299)
137) She now has a stepdaughter who doesn’t seem to burn up with hatred
and resentmentevery time she looks at her stepmother. (Page 304)
138) Ultimately it is Sophia who speaks. (Page 306)
139) The only one who can calm him down is Andi. (Page 307)
140) “On my way,” says Andi, who has already grabbed her coat and is
running out the door. (Page 309)
141) She phoned her mother, who could not leave work, then phoned her
142) Well if you’re dating that freak, Emily, who’s the hot chick you’re with
now, and then I said hi. (Page 316)
143) So I’m just flicking the pages and feeling like … a woman who is loved.
(Page 320)
144) “Oh, gosh. I’m so sorry,” she says to Diana, one of her clients, whose
house goes on the market next month. (Page 332)
145) You let Mom’s flower guy who barely speak English, and who she
barely knows. (Page 339)
146) I’m still” – he shakes his head-“appalled that she allowed someone who is
practically a stranger to pick Cal up. (Page 347)
147) She knows how hard it is for him, can see the pain etched on his face, is
filled with a wave of all-consuming love for this man who-right now she
cannot believe this was ever the case. (Page 348)
148) I’m trying to be the kind of woman who strides confidently down a
street, secure in her skin. (Page 349)
149) And Michael might be the only person who truly knows how to handle
me. (page 349)
150) I am so not the kind of girlwho has spent her life dreaming of, and
planning, her wedding. (Page 350)
151) Andi and Ethan sit stiffly at the kitchen table, watching Emily, who looks
equally uncomfortable. (Page 353)
152) Our lawyer has already stated that here isn’t a judge in the country who
153) Not that there’s anything wrong with Manuel, who has a family of his
own and seems sweet enough, but Emily allowed someone to pick up Cal
whom Cal didn’t even know, whom any of them barely know, fills
Brooke with horror. (Page 371)
154) Unlike Emily, who is as mercurial today as the day she was born. (Page
371)
155) A child who has neither the patience, commitment, nor stability to
raise Cal. (Page 372)
156) I see you as this talented, bright, beautiful girl who is itching to spread
her wings. (Page 377)
157) He’s the one who wants me. (Page 377)
158) I know on the surface he was the one who wanted this so much, and he
was the one said I couldn’t abandon Cal, but I’m not. (Page 381)
159) He was the one who wanted us to be a ready-made family, who said I
couldn’t walk away from Cal. (Page 382)
160) And it’s always you who brings it up. (page 384)
161) They’re the ones who will look up and say sorry. (Page 393)
162) And here I am, with a boyfriend who’s not only clever and handsome
and cute and brilliant and funny, he’s also been my best friend for more
than ten years. (Page 395)
163) I have a family that I love. (Page 398)
164) And coats are handed to Michael, who throws them on the bed in the
3.1.2 Adjective clauses refer to a thing (that, which)
1) The bald teddy bear that she cannot sleep without, now lying on its side.
(Page 4)
2) Soon she had a warehouse filled with furniture she would rent out to her
clients, and reams of fabrics from which she could have curtains, or
pillows, or bedspreads quickly made. (Page 6)
3) They had met for drinks, which had become dinner. (Page 7)
4) A business that became so successful, so quickly, he had decided to devote
himself to growing it once he had left school. (Page 7)
5) Emily would explode in anger, with a rage that left Andi shaking in fear
and bewilderment. (Page 10)
6) It was the fear that always hung over Andi. (Page 12)
7) She is ready to take on the tantrum that will undoubtedly ensue. (page 17)
8) She hadn’t seen Beth in at least a year, not since she had run into her at a
Bikram Yoga workshop (which Andi hadn’t been able to complete). (Page
19)
9) George grunted something that sounded like a yes. (page 19)
10) “Well, tell her I said hi,” Andi said, peering at the black bone hoops in his
ears, which had stretched the original piercing hole to half an inch, half
an inch through which Andi could clearly see the French doors at the
other end of the room. (Page 20)
11) She now bursts into hysterical tears, which is usually enough to get her
12) No one wanted the 1930s cottage, which was unsurprising given that it was
like a miniversion of grey Gardens, but without the cats. (Page 29)
13) “It’s almost like a veil that comes down over her face,” Topher once said.
(Page 31)
14) If he misses a meeting, which he tries not to do, he will go to one the next
day. (Page 32)
15) She is shocked at the warmth of his smile, a warmth that travels up her arm,
along with a slight warning bell that makes her shake her head ever so
slightly. (Page 39)
16) With great and grave effort, she manages to push Pete out of her head, but it
is only when she gets home and finds Ethan clearing out the garage that Pete
leaves her head completely. (Page 42)
17) When Andi goes over to the marble counter on which stands a kettle and a
glass apothecary jar filled with tea bags, to make some tea, Sophia comes
to stand next to her, wrapping an arm around Andi’s waist. (Page 45)
18) Remove the eyeliner that has smudged into deep dark shadows
underneath your eyes. (Page 46)
19) It’s still Sonoma County, which is pure wine country. (Page 49)
20) A split-rail fence appears, marking a driveway, at the end of which are
several people milling about. (Page 49)
21) In the field adjacent to the parking area are huge metal sculptures that spin
22) They find Isabel helping to string lanterns from the branches of a huge old
apple tree, under the leaves of which she and Greg will be getting married.
(Page 51)
23) There are a series of buildings, barns, outbuildings, one of which contains a
basic kitchen. (Page 51)
24) An old commercial stove, and a barbecue made from oil drums cut in half, on
which marinaded chicken drumsticks are spitting. (Page 51)
25) Another is pounding mint with a pestle in a large mortar, adding sugar for the
mojitos that will be poured into jelly jars and handed around to the
guests. (Page 52)
26) I know he thinks I’m wearing some hippie dress, which I was planning to, of
course. (Page 52)
27) It is the word that Andi uses more than any other when she and Ethan are
talking. (Page 57)
28) She wanted her parents to be invited to the neighborhood barbecues that
seemed to be a constant occurrence during the summer. (Page 58)
29) She wanted PB & J for dinner, and macaroni and cheese, and green bean
casserole made with Campbell’s Mushroom soup, not the fresh grilled steaks
and salad, the Soles Veroniques, the coq au vinsthat they sat down to on a
regular basis. (Page 58)
30) She is going through perimenopause, which means her moods are horrific.
(Page 60)
32) Topher suddenly walks up, a cold beer in each hand, one of which he hands
to Ethan. (Page 63)
33) Andi carefully picks her way around the objects that are scattered around
the barn-found metal, oil drums, bicycles, old farm equipment-and stops at a
crack in the shiplap sides, through which she sees the source of the
laughter. (Page 65)
34) And scrape through she did, with SATs that were so bad, they have put off
college for a year. (Page 79)
35) His voice has taken on a false cheerfulness that he so often adopts when
talking to Emily. (Page 83)
36) She rarely wears makeup, lives in Patagonia and Reef flip-flops, and has a
mouth that looks as if she is always on the verge of laughter. (Page 89)
37) She has curly blond hair that is always haphazardly shoved up on the top
of her head with a large spider clip. (page 90)
38) Nothing prepared her for the grief that took hold, the tears that came so
unexpectedly when she was caught up in the mundanities of life, the sobs
that wracked her body while she stood in the checkout line at Safeway.
(Page 94)
39) Even Emily gave her a reprieve, after an outburst in which she accused Andi
of not being the only one to suffer. (Page 94)
40) The music became a sensual throb that moved through her body and
41) Deanna had a natural rhythm, and a flexibility that allowed these men to
fling her around. (Page 98)
42) “Come see me.” And brushing his lips against her ear, causing a shiver that
reaches down to her toes. (Page 102)
43) So why, so suddenly, when she is so happy, is she beset by this craving for
excitement thathad appeared in the form of a young, flirtatious trainer?
(Page 105)
44) They may be happy, in love, settled, but isn’t there always the slightest of
fissures through which a view of the road not taken can be glimpsed?
(page 105)
45) I love him, she thinks, picturing his sweet smile, his strong, capable hands
that can fix anything in the house, that have redesigned the garden, that
have brought her hours and hours of pleasure. (Page 106)
46) She is offering because the histrionics that will ensue when Ethan walks into
the police station do not bear thinking about. (Page 108)
47) Ethan’s body heaves, the only sound being occasional gasps of air as Andi
sits wearily beside him, laying a hand on his back, rubbing in small, gentle
circles, finding her own eyes filling with tears that spill down her cheeks.
(Page 117)
48) This is too much for her: the hatred and rage that fly around this house, that
fill her with dread each time she comes home. (Page 117)
50) There were such high expectations with Ethan, expectations that haven’t
been fulfilled; some of that is okay. (Page 118)
51) She cannot deal with the fear that descends upon her every time she pulls
into her own driveway. (Page 118)
52) That is the only thing of which she is certain, the thing that is now weighing
her down on the bed, forcing her eyes closed with sadness and grief. (Page
118)
53) She heads out to her studio, making calls in the car, shouting into the
Bluetooth speakerphone that muffles everyone and has never worked
properly. (Page 120)
54) Deanna glides in, swathed in layers of jersey, two cups of something hot in
her hand, one of which she places on the table in front of Andi, leaning
down to kiss her cheek. (Page 120)
55) Having Emily is like this poison that seeps into everything. (Page 121)
56) She felt a wave of disappointment, which she tried to bury in the pages of
the book, but it was hard. (Page 125)
57) The privacy of the computer screen creating a sense of intimacy that she had
never found anywhere else. (Page 125)
58) It is the unspoken cloud that is hovering above all their heads. (Page 129)
59) When she brought up adoption, which she did regularly in those early days,
he changed the subject. (Page 130)
61) She pauses, aware of her heart pounding, hoping she is saying the right thing,
the words that will make Ethan say yes. (Page 134)
62) It is the landscape that lifts Andi’s spirits. (Page 138)
63) “Emily’s pregnant,” Andi says after a very long silence, which is entirely
comfortable. (Page 139)
64) I know this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to you. (Page 140)
65) And I like my teeth, although I hated wearing the braces that led to them
looking like this. (Page 144)
66) I have a picture I found of an old singer called Siouxsie Sioux that I keep in
my drawer. (Page 144)
67) He had this tree house that his dad had made when he was small. (Page
146)
68) If I wasn’t at his house, which I was almost all the time, we’d sit on the
phone. (Page 146)
69) How do you go from one day being virtually inseparable and telling each
other everything, even those embarrassing awful stories that you would
never tell anyone else, to being virtual strangers? (Page 147)
70) I squeezed my eyes shut in that doctor’s office and didn’t move, not even to
wipe away the tears that were streaming down my cheeks. (Page 150)
71) Even the divorce, which was awful, ended up being okay. (Page 150)
72) She would have reached for the vodka, drunk herself into oblivion, fed up
73) She was coming back from a fiftieth birthday party that had gone on far
later than anyone had planned. (Page 155)
74) She had reached behind the heavy iron pot on the doorstep, pulled out the key
that was hidden there, and let herself in. (Page 155)
75) He’d come home from work to greet the kids off the school bus, trying to
contain his mounting sadness that Brooke was already well on her way to
being incapacitated. (Page 158)
76) For years they have been filled with overgrowing weeds, which Ethan, on
his rare visits, cannot resist plucking out, but now they are properly
planted. (Page 159)
77) If she is wearing makeup, it is sloppy and wrong-a red lipstick that never
seems to stay within the lines of her lips, clothes that neither flatter nor
fit her. (Page 160)
78) Dust collects on the surfaces of tables covered with tiny china animals that
Brooke cannot bear to throw away. (Page 161)
79) “We have started looking at adoption agencies, which seems to be the only
course of action open to us, but…” He sighs deeply. (Page 164)
80) Today, my dad started talking about condoms in the car, which completely
freaked me out. (Page 166)
81) And the only thing that ever gives me hope, that makes me feel life is
going to get better, is the thought of having a baby. (Page 167)
82) Popping OxyContin and Vicodin, and their parents’ Ambien that they’ve
coke isn’t quite as dramatic as someone’s tying a tourniquet on their arm and
shooting up some smack. (Page 168)
83) I even found a website that sells these baby shoes that look like biker
boots. (Page 171)
84) Andi’s been making me these protein smoothies, and big salads, and all this
food that’s supposed to be good for the baby’s brain, and it feels like I’m
being looked after. (Page 172)
85) The pillows are still the same faded green and orange pillows that his mom
gave us years ago. (Page 175)
86) It is the kind of day he used to love, the kind of day that makes him happy
to be alive. (Page 177)
87) They shared an intimacy and a comfort that led to Ethan’s knowing,
instinctively, this had been going on for a while; this was the reason for her
needing space. (Page 179)
88) After the drinking and the drama that colored his first marriage to Brooke,
Andi was his port in a storm. (Page 180)
89) The tensions at home have been overwhelming to the point where it is easier
to be outside of the home, away from Emily and Andi and the discord that
exists between them. (Page 182)
90) That his life, which has felt so settled for the past five years, now feels as if
it is about to turn upside down. (Page 185)
92) “Thumb swear?” which was this stupid thing we did as kids when we
decided pinkie swears were just too girly. (Page 199)
93) We feed them organic gourmet baby food that we steam and puree
ourselves, scooping it into ice-cube trays for easy access later. (Page 201)
94) So Andi picked a diner on the outskirts of Oakland, which is pretty funny.
(Page 203)
95) I wanted to look in every stroller that passed me. (Page 204)
96) “It’s so nice to meet you,” Adeline reaches across the table, extending a hand,
which I have no choice but to take. (Page 205)
97) “It’s not you,” he says sadly, swallowing the lump that has risen in his
throat. (Page 212)
98) It’s like this white-hot rage that build inside of me. (page 216)
99) The screaming tantrums, which leave Andi discombobulated and terrified,
interspersed with moments of loving calm. (Page 228)
100) The intimacy that has always characterized their relationship has flown
out the window. (Page 230)
101) He pads down the corridor to the spare room, which is cold and
unwelcoming. (Page 230)
102) They sit at the dinner table, forcing small talk, with none of the easy
conversation that has always flowed between them. (Page 231)
103) Should she share the news that is now weighing her down and bringing
104) I want to feel the overwhelming love that I felt for the B…well, the baby
girl I thought was inside my stomach. (Page 236)
105) In the beginning, you’re producing colostrums, which is filled with
antibodies the baby needs, and it gets him off to the very best possible
start. (Page 238)
106) And I lean down and give him my finger, which he squeezes tightly. (Page
241)
107) Sophia takes him for walks, which helps, although she says she’s nervous
because he’s so small. (Page 241)
108) I get on the computer, which is about my only access to the outside world
right now. (Page 242)
109) Meanwhile, he’s in onesiesfrom Carter’s, which Andi has bought. (Page
242)
110) Every day she brings back some other fantastic thing: toys that squeak and
sing; chairs that bounce. (Page 243)
111) That was when I almost started giggling, which was totally embarrassing
because I know it’s meant to be natural, except it isn’t. (Page 245)
112) She has gently suggested Emily remove the pacifier-the pacifier that helps
him sleep is the same pacifier that falls out of his slack jaw. (Page 247)
113) The makeup that usually clutters the top of her desk is gone (Page 250)
114) The peace that exists in their household started almost as soon as Emily
115) “I’m not Mommy,” she’d say, even though she was, and the fact that he
was calling her Mommy filled her with a joy she hadn’t expected. (Page
257)
116) Andi was Mommy now, and that wasn’t something that could ever be
taken away. (Page 258)
117) Andi had mistakenly thought there was all this chemistry between them,
chemistry that was indicating she might have made a terrible mistake in
marrying Ethan, but clearly it was all in her imagination. (Page 263)
118) Emily was the knife that had always threatened to splinter their
relationship, to drive it apart. (Page 263)
119) Cal became the glue that bonded them together, a bond that was more
secure than Andi would ever have thought possible. (Page 263)
120) She comes to stay quite a bit, and she brought Sophia last spring break,
which was awesome. (Page 275)
121) And I smile into his eyes, hoping he isn’t noticing the hot blush that is
staining my cheeks a bright, glaring red. (Page 275)
122) He raises an eyebrow, which is pretty impressive given that one eye is still
closed. (Page 282)
123) Michael breaks off from kissing me, stroking my hair with a tenderness that
makes me want to weep. (Page 283)
124) We find a small coffee shop that is filled with the warm smells of
fresh-baked cupcakes and cookies. (Page 284)
126) She had a child she didn’t want and wasn’t prepared to take care of, a
stepmother she hated, a father she loved but resented, and a social life that
was filled with budding alcoholics, drug addicts, and misfits. (Page 294)
127) She would be thrilled to see the transformation that has taken place in
Emily. (Page 304)
128) “Your first love!” sings Sophia as Emily blushes again, unable to hide the
joy that lights up her face. (Page 308)
129) Please stop worrying about a future that may never happen. (Page 313)
130) Today it was Rice Krispies treats, which are his absolute favorites. (Page
325)
131) He extends a pot with a plastic flower, pressing a button on the base, which
starts music playing, as the flower bobs and weaves. (Page 326)
132) There’s no response at the house, which is odd. (Page 332)
133) I tried to force myself to think of other things, even indulging in the
wedding fantasy for a good fifteen minutes, which was much longer than
the allotted time. (Page 352)
134) She is wearing what appears to be one of Brooke’s suits, which seems to
belong to the early eighties. (Page 354)
135) I’ve never been to London, and I’ve always wanted to go, and Central Saint
Martins is there, which is, like, the best art school in the world. (Page
355)
136) I want to bask in their love and acceptance, which feels entirely genuine.
137) The very fact that you just said all a child needs is love is an indication of
just how ill equipped you are to be a mother. (Page 360)
138) But then you started acting in ways that made me think you hadn’t
changed that much, that it was all superficial. (Page 362)
139) She saw Emily say the words she had been dreading, the words that would
destroy her life, and saw Ethan, finally, saying no. (Page 366)
140) She needs some help with the right words, the words that will enable
Emily to hear. (Page 371)
141) He probably said some terrible things that he didn’t mean. (Page 373)
142) I push my arms into the sleeves of a well-worn robe that I have had since I
was about ten. (Page 382)
143) The relief that washes over me is indescribable. (Page 386)
144) It comes out as a high-pitched giggle, which doesn’t sound like me at all.
(Page 387)
145) I never expected to feel so grown-up, but working for the past four years,
saving money to put myself through school, going home every day to my
boyfriend in a country that isn’t my own, has definitely made me mature
way faster. (Page 394)
146) My childhood in Mill Valley, then life postdivorce with all the terrible
teenage trauma that came with it-oh, my God! (Page 394)
147) Giving him up was a way to let go of the guilt that kept me away those
148) I unwrap the cheeses and put them on a platter with fresh organic grapes and
the gluten-free crackers that Sophia likes. (Page 399)
3.1.3 Adjective clauses refer to a time (when)
1) It’s always four in the morning, these nights when she awakes, when she
cannot get back to sleep. (Page 3)
2) She would wake up in the middle of the night, particularly those nights when
she woke up cold and wet, feeling an empty hole in her heart. (Page 14)
3) Some of the time, when Andi wakes up drenched, she changes and goes
straight back to sleep. (Page 15)
4) He doesn’t commit to it quite as seriously as Topher does to AA, but certainly
in the early days, when Topher was getting sober, Al-Anon was his support
system. (Page 32)
5) Later, when they’ve finished lunch, and are basking in the warmth, lingering
over herbal teas, Pete says to Andi, “You look like you’re in great shape,”
clearly lying. (Page 40)
6) I already told you next summer, when you’re fourteen, you can work as my
assistant. (Page 45)
7) Her parents were only in their forties when they had Andi. (Page 59)
8) A couple of years ago, when they were having friends for dinner, Sophia,
who had been about to turn eleven, had wandered into the kitchen just in time
to hear Ethan ask one of their friends what they would like to drink. (Page 72)
9) The nights when Emily throws tantrums, when Ethan spends hours
10) I still cross my fingers every month, praying that this might be the month
when a miracle occurs and I actually find myself pregnant. (Page 137)
11) I don’t have any idea these days when my next period is going to be
coming. (Page 137)
12) I only know he pretended because there was this one day when he thought I
hadn’t seen him. (Page 148)
13) There were times when life was so painful that I almost couldn’t get out of
bed. (Page 149)
14) Except…except those times, like today, when she was caring, and it feel
real, and genuine. (Page 152)
15) Those are the times when I think I could almost…almost love her. (Page
152)
16) Andi was fast asleep this morning when he left. (Page 177)
17) When they first met, when they became lovers, on weekends when they had
no children to look after, he would go for a run. (Page 182)
18) Every evening, when he walks through the front door, Andi is in the
kitchen making dinner. (Page 230)
19) Andi’s pretty good during the day when my dad’s at work. (Page 242)
20) She thinks back, sometimes, to when Emily was pregnant, to those times
when she was ready to leave. (Page 256)
21) At two and a half, when Cal was in preschool for three mornings a week,
22) I just thought he was cute for about two seconds when I first met him. (Page
261)
23) Her experience of Brooke, at least in those early days when Brooke was
drinking, was so unpleasant she still wants as little to do with her as
possible. (Page 291)
24) It was always so hard to get anything done properly in the afternoons when
Cal was in the office with her. (Page 309)
25) “We have to talk to her,” Andi says later that evening, when she and Ethan
are clearing up after dinner. (Page 310)
26) I lie under the covers for about half an hour, going over the words again,
reliving that exact moment when he told me he loves me. (Page 320)
27) “I just want to turn the clock back to six months ago, when everything in life
was good.” (Page 387)
28) I felt it for years, but there were moments, so many moments, when I came
so close to loving her, when I thought that perhaps we could find a way to
be friends, find a way through. (Page 388)
29) So every day, when I’m getting the Tube home, I don’t care that I’m shoved
into a corner. (Page 393)
3.1.4 Adjective clauses refer to a place (where)
1) Her twenties were spent working in interior design, for a small store in
Fairfield, Connecticut, where she had grown up. (Page 5)
2) The kitchen wall would come down, opening up into one great big
3) Two teenage girls on babysitting duty, trying to herd the kids down by the
creek, where large flat stones let the water rest. (Page 51)
4) Andi gestures over to the far side of the field, where she can see Ethan
talking to someone. (Page 61)
5) Andi heads over to the bar, where Tess is watching her with amusement.
(Page 100)
6) Andi walks on eggshells in her own house, a house where chaos and drama
reign. (Page 104)
7) Andi thinks, reminding herself she is in Mill Valley, where the greatest
crimes tend to be, indeed, DUIs. (Page 110)
8) Her footsteps run back to the bedroom and into the bathroom, where she
flings her arms around Andi. (Page 119)
9) She was left on her own with this screaming, colicky baby, in a new town
where they’d recently moved for his work. (Page 123)
10) I’d move over to the wall in front where there are cracks between the
planks. (Page 190)
11) She’d bring trays and trays out to the tree house, where even her rejects
would be hungrily devoured. (Page 191)
12) Just a place where I was accepted for me. (Page 191)
13) Sometimes, if I’m at the doctor’s office, or in a place where there are a
stack of magazines, I will pick up something like Cosmopolitan. (Page 193)
14) They are blessed to have a large house, with two acres, in a neighborhood
