Put yourself in Scrooge’s shoes. If you heard people talking about you in this way, would it make you want to change your ways? Why or why not? * Im giving out 20 points

Your work did not, however, pay off your debts – you could spend the rest of ... In his seminal novella “A Christmas Carol,” Ebenezer Scrooge is ... Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of ... “I'm very glad to hear it.” ... myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry

“I don't make myself merry at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry. ... It looked like/became the FACE of Jacob Marley (Marley died 7 years ago, on Christmas Eve). ... He told Scrooge that he better change his ways or else he will be doomed to walk the earth ... You have a chance tonight to escape my fate.

remember, the goal of an adjective clause is to add more information to a noun or a pronoun. as you can see from the examples above, you can add information by including a longer adjective clause or tighten up a sentence by turning the adjective clause into an adjective phrase.