Prof.

Juan Santana Lario

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Fax: 958 24 36 78
e-mail: jsantana@ugr.es

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GRAMÁTICA INGLESA II - WORKSHEET 4.3: SUBORDINATE ADVERBIAL CLAUSES

[INSTRUCTIONS: COMPLETE & UPLOAD TO SWAD. DUE: WEDNESDAY 30/5/18, 23:59 H

1. In following examples, 1) Identify adverbial clauses; 2) Identify the subordinator 3) Identify the formal type (finite,
nonfinite, verbless) 4) Indicate the specific type of A (content disjunct, viewpoint subjunct, etc. ) 5) Identify the
semantic category (time, place, contingency (reason, conditional, etc.):

Sub. Form Func. Sem.

1. To be honest with you, I think it’s amazing
2. The theater was empty when the movie started.
3. After spending a week in Luxembourg, they went to Liechtenstein.
4. He never drives while under the influence of alcohol.
5. Although she slipped once, Olga was the best on the balance beam.
6. Whether or not the game is telecast, we are going to see it live.
7. Answer the questions, where applicable.
8. There is now a thirty-story hotel where we used to picnic.
9. If the car won’t start, we’ll have to walk.
10. We’ll have to walk, unless the car starts.
11. Whatever you ask for, they serve ketchup and mustard.
12. Syd shaved all his hair off because he wanted to be cool.
13. In as much as all aspiring is the same formula, we buy the cheapest.
14. In order to get a good seat, you have to get to the stadium early.
15. She changed her hair style and wore dark glasses, so that no one recognized
her.
16. He delivered the speech just as he had practiced it.
17. He waited hours for a ticket rather than miss the opening game.
18. As bees love nectar, men love flattery.
19. Seeing that it is already 5:00, the store is probably closed.
20. No matter how often I learn the Greek alphabet, I forget it.
21. A 500-pound gorilla sleeps wherever he wants.
22. If you offer the monkey tricks, he’ll do tricks.
23. They spent a year in Germany in order to learn German.
24. They spent a year in Germany, so that they learned German.
25. She is resigning, if you know what I mean.
26. Whatever your problems are, they can’t be worse than mine.
27. The latest unemployment figures are encouraging, as it were.
28. Viewed objectively, he is definitely at fault.
29. Whereas the US has immense mineral wealth, Japan has comparatively little.
30. Naked as I was, I braved the storm.
31. As far as its economy is concerned, Germany shows signs of stagnation.
32. Speaking of the devil, here come my nephew.
33. To begin with, I don’t like your attitude.
34. You should write a will in case something happens to you abroad.
35. I’m leaving now, in case you don’t know.
36. Knowing me, knowing you, there is nothing we can do.
37. Whenever I phone them up they all pretend to have emigrated to Australia.
38. To sum up, it’s far too unreliable.
39. To begin with, we haven’t got enough money.
40. Since schizophrenia is a brain disorder, it’s nobody’s fault, she says.
41. I haven’t been there since I was a boy.
42. Looking at it like that, it may well be well worth a try.
43. Though leaking, the roof will still last a few more years.
44. Four hours he sat there as if deliberately waiting me out.
45. Rather than thinking twice, she ran a grabbed the trolley.
46. She was dark skinned and in her late fifties, although she looked much
younger.
47. To call the ambulance, dial 155
48. I sold the furniture to help us pay off our debts.
49. Trouble just seemed to follow me wherever I went.
50. We wrote the essay consulting an array of authors.
51. As far as farmers are concerned tree planting has not been integrated into
their work patterns or land management.
52. To recapitulate, Spain is going to face the worst crisis in History.
53. Linguistically speaking, Dutch is an SVO language.

Dpto. de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Campus de Cartuja s/n, 18071 GRANADA
 Prof. Juan Santana Lario
 958 24 36 68
Fax: 958 24 36 78
e-mail: jsantana@ugr.es

http://www.ugr.es/local/jsantana
http://swad.ugr.es

54. If I were you I wouldn’t have told her.

55. The workers were always on time, so they never get into trouble.
56. Putting it all together, your decision was right.
57. Some performance curves will now be presented to show the main
differences between practical and ideal cycles.
58. Mary could cook while listening to the radio.

2. Attempt a full syntactic analysis of the following examples and provide a full description (form, function, meaning)
of all adverbial clauses:

1) As I had anticipated, I found it difficult to understand the Liverpool accents, so that I decided to stop learning English there, and
move to Cambridge, even though it is more expensive to live there.
2) Perhaps, then, instead of imagining what Orwell would have written if he was alive today, we should go back to his books and see
if what he wrote says anything to us now.

Dpto. de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Campus de Cartuja s/n, 18071 GRANADA