+Example+.—When he saw me, he stopped = Seeing me, he stopped.
+Direction+.—Contract these complex sentences to simple ones:—
1. Coral animals, when they die, form vast islands with their bodies. 2. The water will freeze, for it has cooled to 32 deg. 3. Truth, though she may be crushed to earth, will rise again. 4. Error, if he is wounded, writhes with pain, and dies among his worshipers. 5. Black clothes are too warm in summer, because they absorb heat.
An adverb clause may be contracted to an absolute phrase.
+Example+.—When night came on, we gave up the chase = Night coming on, we gave up the chase.
+Direction+.—Contract these complex sentences to simple ones:—
1. When oxygen and carbon unite in the minute blood-vessels, heat is produced. 2. It will rain to-morrow, for "Probabilities" predicts it. 3. Washington retreated from Long Island because his army was outnumbered. 4. If Chaucer is called the father of our later English poetry, Wycliffe should be called the father of our later English prose.
An adverb clause may be contracted to a prepositional phrase having for its principal word (1) a participle, (2) an infinitive, or (3) a noun.
+Direction+.—Contract each of these adverb clauses to a prepositional phrase having a participle for its principal word:—
+Model+.—They will call before they leave the city = They will call before leaving the city.