An adjective clause functions as an adjective, that is, it gives some information about a noun in a sentence (or a pronoun) ( information which is not an action).
The noun modified here is "knife" and the information about the knife, that is the complete adjective clause is "<span> that his dad gave him.
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Answer: When Johnny said that to him, he meant for him to stay innocent. He meant for Ponyboy not to go down a bad path like many of the other greasers did. It was a reference to the Robert Frost poem "Stay Gold". Ponyboy had recited the poem to Johnny when they were hiding out at the Windrixville church. In one line of the poem, it had said "Nothing gold can stay" meaning that all good things must come to an end. So he was telling him to stay gold or stay good. So if you think about it he was telling Ponyboy not to change.
Malicious: full of evil because evil + full of = full of evil meaning full of hatred or dislike.
The phrase "oh well, women are used to worrying over triffles means to look down on women and said that women always worry over nothing of importance
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i think; he one that has similar meaning would be : A. they wonder whether she was going to quilt it or just knot it !
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