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LESSON 66.
COMPOSITION-ADVERB CLAUSES.
+COMMA--RULE.--An _Adverb Clause_ is set off by the comma unless it closely
follows and restricts the word it modifies+.
+Explanation+.--I met him in Paris, _when I was last abroad_. I will not
call him villain, _because it would be unparliamentary_. Paper was invented
in China, _if the Chinese tell the truth_. In these sentences the adverb
clauses are not restrictive, but are supplementary, and are added almost as
afterthoughts.
Glass bends easily _when it is red-hot_. Leaves do not turn red _because
the frost colors them_. It will break _if you touch it_. Here the adverb
clauses are restrictive; each is very closely related in thought to the
independent clause, and may almost be said to be the essential part of the
sentence.
When the adverb clause precedes, it is set off.
+Direction+.---_Tell why the adverb clauses are or are not set off in
Lessons_ 63 _and_ 64.
+Direction+.---_Write, after these independent clauses, adverb clauses of
time, place, degree, etc. (for connectives, see Lesson _100_), and
punctuate according to the Rule_:--
1. The leaves of the water-maple turn red--_time_.
2. Our eyes cannot bear the light--_time_.
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