There are some texts that call adverb clauses subordinate
clauses; they then call adjective clauses relative clauses, but don’t put
them in the subordinate category. That has always felt strange to me---but I
think it’s just a naming thing and not a disagreement on how things are
functioning.
I agree that this is an adverb clauses modifying the adjective.
Edith Wollin
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Quirk et al call it a that-clause modifying an adjective. I
always have a hard time calling clauses that begin with ‘that’
adverb clauses, but then I’m stuck for a name. A friend of mine
just calls them subordinate clauses.
Janet Castilleja
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What kind of clause is the underlined part below? I
think it is an adverbial clause modifying happy. Is this reasonable?
Are there other reasonable analyses? The boy was very happy that his mother did not see him
being such a pig. Thanks, Scott Woods |
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