1. Luther died where he was born.
2. A fish breathes, though it has no lungs.
3. The general marched as he was ordered.
4. Criminals are punished that society may be safe.
5. If you are free from vices, you may expect a happy old age.
An adverb clause may be contracted by simply omitting such words as may
easily be supplied.
+Example+.--_When you are right_, go ahead = _When right_, go ahead.
+Direction+.--_Contract these adverb clauses_:--
1. Chevalier Bayard was killed while he was fighting for Francis I.
2. Error must yield, however strongly it may be defended.
+Explanation+.--_However_ modifies _strongly_, and connects a concessive
clause.
3. Much wealth is corpulence, if it is not disease.
4. No other English author has uttered so many pithy sayings as Shakespeare
has uttered.
(Frequently, clauses introduced by _as_ and _than_ are contracted.)
5. The sun is many times larger than the earth is large.
(Sentences like this never appear in the full form.)
6. This is a prose era rather than it is a poetic era.
An adverb clause may sometimes be changed to an adjective clause or phrase.
+Example+.--This man is to be pitied, _because he has no friends_ = This
man, _who has no friends_, is to be pitied = This man, _having no friends_,
is to be pitied = This man, _without friends_, is to be pitied.
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