ADVERB CLAUSES
447. The third kind of clause which we may use in a complex sentence is the adverb clause.
An adverb clause is a clause which takes the place of an adverb. It may modify a verb, an adjective, or an adverb. We studied adverb clauses in lesson 21 and we found eight classes of adverb clauses, expressing time, place, cause or reason, manner, comparison, condition, purpose and result. For example:
- Adverb clause of time: No man is truly free until all are free.
- Adverb clause of place: We must live where we can find work.
- Adverb clause expressing cause or reason: We lost the strike because the men were not class-conscious.
- Adverb clause of manner: We must work as if the result depended entirely upon us.
- Adverb clause of comparison: The working class must become more class-conscious than it is today.
- Adverb clause of condition: We will continue to be exploited if we do not demand our rights.
- Adverb clause expressing purpose: We must read the labor press in order that we may know the truth concerning conditions.
- Adverb clause expressing result: The battle raged so furiously that thousands were slain.