- 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.
ANALYZING COMPLEX SENTENCES
448. To analyze a complex sentence; that is, to break it up into its different parts—treat the sentence first as a whole, then find the simple subject and the simple predicate. If a noun clause is the subject, treat it first as a noun. Treat adjective clauses as adjectives modifying certain words and the adverb clauses as adverbs modifying certain words.
In other words, analyze the sentence first as a simple sentence with dependent clauses considered as modifying words; then analyze each dependent clause as though it were a simple sentence. Make an outline like the following and use it in your analysis of the sentence. Let us take this sentence and analyze it:
- Conscious solidarity in the ranks would give the working class of the world, now, in our day, the freedom which they seek.
Simple subject, solidarity.
Simple predicate, would give.
Modifiers of the subject:
- Adjective, conscious.
- Adjective phrase, in the ranks.
- Adjective clause, (none).
Complete subject, Conscious solidarity in the ranks.