Exercise 1

In the following sentences, mark the conjunctions and tell to what class they belong; ask the question when, where, why, how, on what condition, for what purpose, to what result. Underscore the subordinate clauses. The subjects of the subordinate clauses are printed in italics.

  1. Speech was developed that we might be able to communicate with one another.
  2. The International failed in the crisis because it had no definite war program.
  3. We will fail if we have no definite program.
  4. If labor were united, we could destroy wage slavery.
  5. When the people understand, they will no longer submit.
  6. Labor cannot win until it learns solidarity.
  7. After the terrible war is over, the workers in all countries may come closer together.
  8. We are convinced of the folly of nationalism since the war has been declared.
  9. If we knew the facts we could not be misled.
  10. Inform yourself before you seek to teach others.
  11. We must unite in order that we may possess power.
  12. It is more than the heart can bear.
  13. May you have courage to dare ere you have ceased to dream.
  14. If we remain ignorant, we shall remain enslaved.
  15. We sometimes fear to trust our own thought because it is our own.
  16. Though we should lose the strike we will not despair.
  17. The battle waged so fiercely that thousands were slain.

PHRASE CONJUNCTIONS

360. There are certain phrases which have come to be used together as conjunctions so commonly that we may consider them as conjunctions. They are:

As if, as though, but also, but likewise, so that, except that, inasmuch as, notwithstanding that, in order that, as well as, as far as, so far as, as little as, provided that, seeing that, etc.

Exercise 2

Write sentences using these phrase conjunctions to introduce clauses.

NOUN CLAUSES

361. We have found that there are two kinds of clauses, principal clauses and subordinate clauses.