Abstract
Prior to their exposure to modified-adjective constructions, students have already encountered participles as predicate adjectives (Das Fenster ist geschlossen) or as attributive adjectives (das geschlossene Fenster). They also know that in English and German these adjectives could be modified by an adverb, e.g. tightly closed window or das dicht geschlossene Fenster. After a brief review or mere recall of this prerequisite knowledge, it can be pointed out that German customarily allows more and longer modifiers to stand between the article and the participle than English and that such extended adjective constructions correspond to one of four types of relative clauses. These clauses either:
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