Adverbial clauses: time, place, cause, purpose

An adverbial clauses of cause (reason) shows the

cause of the action expressed in the principal

clause.

• As he had a liking for the sopt, he seldom let a

week pass without paying it a visit

• Letters were infrequent in his world and not very welcome because more often than not they contained

bad news.

• Since he had a certain talent for composition, his

English master encouraged him to write little pieces… for the college magazine.

• He is suspicious and jealous for fear anyone else

might want to share in his power

• She kept her back to the window that he might not see her rising color.
• Wounds sometimes must be opened in order that they may be healed.
• I crouched against the wall of the

gallery so that I should not be seen.

• … he made all these exclamations in a carefully suppressed voice, lest the valet should overhear anything.

Adverbial clauses of

purpose state the

purpose of the action

expressed in the principal clause. They are

introduced by the

conjunctions that, in order that, so that, lest (чтобы не) and some others.

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