Adjective clauses should be placed near the word to which they are added.

Exercise 145. Composition

Improve these sentences by changing the position of the adjective clauses. You may wish to make other changes. It will sometimes help to move an adverbial adjunct to the beginning of the sentence.

1. Many persons criticised the law who were ignorant about the subject.

2. We stopped at a cabin on our way up the canyon where an old miner lived by himself.

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3. I saw many persons while I was visiting my Minneapolis friends who asked about you.

4. I found many kinds of trees in the Arnold Arboretum that were natives of Asia.

5. Now there lived a stout tanner in the good town of Blyth who was celebrated far and near for feats of strength.

6. The signature is the person's name who wrote the letter.

7. The basement is to be built under the rear half, which will be about twenty by thirty feet, and will contain a boiler and fuel room, laundry and store room.