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　　Module 5 The Great Sports Personality
　　Grammar—Review of adverbial clauses
　　Goals
　　● To review adverbial clauses
　　Procedures
　　Step 1 Reviewing the adverbial clauses
　　Adverbial clauses are less than (subordinate to) sentences. They do not contain a plete thought.
　　Adverbial clauses always modify the verb in the main clause (the sentence) to which the adverbial clause is attached.
　　An adverbial clause tells how, when, why, how much, to what extent and under what conditions the action in the main clause takes place.
　　Adverbial clauses always begin with a subordinating conjunction. The most mon subordinating conjunctions are listed below.
　　Before, after, unless
　　Although, if, until
　　As, in order that, when
　　As, since, whenever
　　as long as, so that, where
　　as soon as, than, wherever
　　because, though, while
　　Adverbial clauses, like all subordinate clauses, are structured in the same way all sentences are structured. All adverbial clauses will fall into one of the five sentence patterns that have already been described.
　　Examples
　　The whole country was saddened when Oswald assassinated Kennedy.
　　When is the subordinating conjunction introducing this adverbial clause whiodifies was saddened. Oswald is the subject of the clause. Assassinated is the action verb which transfers its action to the direct object, which is Kennedy, all of whiakes this clause transitive active.
　　Little Joe was punished because the window was broken.