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these adverb clauses can stand only at the end_.
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LESSON 68.
COMPOSITION--ADVERB CLAUSES.
An adverb clause may be contracted into a participle or a participle
phrase.
+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.
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