Adverbial clauses: time, place, cause, purpose

ADVERBIAL CLAUSES: TIME, PLACE, CAUSE, PURPOSE

Gaybullayeva Dildora

The Teacher Of USWLU

OUTLINE:

• Adverbial modifier clause and its types
• Adverbial clause of time
• Adverbial clause of place
• Adverbial clause of cause
• Adverbial clause of purpose

ADVERBIAL CLAUSE

• An adverbial clause performs the function of an adverbial modifier. It can modify a

verb, an adjective or an adverb in the

principal clause

He stopped as Kravat came rushing out.

He was getting on better than he’d expected.

Frank… returned to the auction room as fast as his legs would carry him.

comparison

manner

result

concession

condition

purpose

cause, (reason)

place

time

Types of adverbial clause

• Adverbial clauses are joined to the

principal clause by means of subordinating

conjunctions;

they are not joined to the principal clause

asyndetically except sometimes adverbial clauses of condition.

• An adverbial clause may precede the

clause to which it is subordinated or

follow it. In the first case it is separated

from the principal clause by a comma, in the second, as a rule, no comma is used. An adverbial clause may also interrupt

the principal clause, in which case a

comma is used at the beginning and at

the end of it.

-When things are at the worst, they’re

sure to mend.

-He was sipping the whisky and soda

when she returned.

-The first words, when we had taken our seats, were spoken by my lady.

• If we have two or more homogeneous adverbial

clauses they are separated from each other by a comma:

He (Oliver) was still the same gentle, attached,

affectionate creature that he had been when pain and

suffering had wasted his strength, and when he was

dependent for every slight attention and comfort on those who tended him.

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