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Look at the underlined groups of words in the text and answer the question.
Are they important to identify the nouns before them?
Essential and Nonessential Adjective Clauses
Study the rules and examples on Page 177 before you do the following tasks.
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A.
Listen and complete the sentences.
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Taghiyev rented a small piece of land in Bibi-Heybat which is one of the first places
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in Baku.
His mother was from Bilgah
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on the seacoast of the Absheron Peninsula.
Taghiyev
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became a millionaire.
One of the girls’ schools was in Balakhani
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for oil workers.
Andrew Carnegie
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was also one of the most important philanthropists of his era.
Carnegie’s family decided to settle in Allegheny
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of Pittsburgh.
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Add commas to separate the nonessential adjective clause from the main clause.
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Find the sentences with essential adjective clauses. Add commas if the adjective clause is nonessential.
The mosque that Taghiyev built for Tatars in St. Petersburg is still functioning.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett who are two richest people in the world know how to make money.
He was the only person who could save the family from bankruptcy.
The family didn’t know the name of the person who donated this money.
In 1924, Taghiyev died in his summer cottage in the village of Mardakan which is not far from Baku.
The man whose photo you are looking at was the most famous person of his time.
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Write about the life of one philanthropist you know.
Use essential and nonessential adjective clauses.
Start with the following sentence.
In my opinion,
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, who
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, is the most generous person of all time.
name of the
philanthropist
extra information
about that
person