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Another test for adverbial clauses is to substitute them with a prepositional phrase
or an adverb:
She got the job for that reason.
I left then.
Despite his wealth , he has few friends.
Adverbial clauses, like adverbials, are generally optional in clauses and can be placed
in more than one position. Here are some alternatives to the above examples:
He has few friends although he’s rich.
Because she has a lot of experience she got the job.
In B5 we noted that subordinate clauses with time conjunctions, such as
when,
before,
after, mark future time with the present tense, even though the main clause may have
a future time marker such as
will:
I’ll leave before the concert finishes.
This also applies to clauses introduced by
if (socalled ‘conditionals’):
I won’t go if the weather’s bad.
See the two readings in D10 for more on the topic of conditional sentences.
The following sentence is ambiguous. Can you explain this using the differ
ence between nominal and adverbial clauses, plus the concept of transitivity?
Tell me when the concert finishes.
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