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

 

 

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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