A complex sentence is made up of an independent clause (which can stand alone and make sense) and a dependent clause (which must be attached to the independent clause to make sense).
Example:
The television was playing (independent clause) as I left the room (dependent clause).
There are three kinds of dependent clauses: adjective clause, adverb clause, and noun clause.
An adverb clause is a dependent clause that modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb. It usually modifies the verb.
Adverb clauses are introduced by subordinate conjunctions
including after, although, as, as if, before, because, if, since, so that,
than, though, unless, until, when, where, and while. These are just
some of the more common ones.
Example:
They arrived before the game had ended.
- before the game had
ended modifying arrived (telling
when)
Instructions: Find the adverb dependent clauses in the following sentences and tell what they modify.
1. You clean the bathroom while I clean the carpet.
2. Ann was confident that she would play the best.
3. Bring in the toys before they get destroyed.
4. I stood on the box so that I could see the top of the shelf.
5. Your face becomes red when you are angry.
--For answers scroll
down.
Answers:
1. You clean the bathroom while I clean the carpet.
- while I clean the carpet modifies clean
2. Ann was confident that she would play the best.
- that she would play the best modifies the predicate adjective confident
3. Bring in the toys before they get destroyed.
- before they get destroyed modifies bring
4. I stood on the box so that I could see the top of the shelf.
- so that I could see the top of the shelf modifies stood
5. Your face becomes red when you are angry.
- when you are angry modifies becomes
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