(g) Result: [She was so tired that she stumbled].
(h) Condition: [If it rains, we shall not go].
(i) Comparison: [You look as if you were tired].
Note that the subordinate clauses in the above examples are modifying clauses.
(j) Direct quotation: [She said, "I will go">[.
(k) Indirect statement: [She said that she would go].
(l) Indirect question: [I knew where his house was].
Note that the subordinate clauses in the above examples are substantive clauses.
+85. The Framework of a Sentence+ has been already described as consisting of the subject, the verb, and, if the verb be incomplete, of some completing element, object or attribute complement. Occasionally an objective complement must be added. Besides these elementary parts, both subject and predicate may have modifiers.
The usual modifiers of the subject are:—