ADVERBIAL CLAUSES
Adverbial clauses is a clause attached that serves as an adverb (description) incompound sentences. So it can replace an adverb in a single sentence.
• Theories in adverbial clauses :
a) Adverbial clause of time (the child replacement sentence description of time)
Adverbial clause of time beginning with conjunctions after, before, until, while.
b) Adverbial clause of place (the clause substitutes a description of places)
begins with the conjunction Nowhere or Wherever.
c) Adverbial clause of reason (The child replacement sentence description of causality) Beginning with conjunctions because, since, as/that.
d) Adverbial clause of purpose (clause replacement information purposes) Beginning with the conjunctions so, so that, in other that.
e) Adverbial clase concession
Begins with the conjunction though, although, while and whereas.
f) Adverbial clause of condition
Beginning with the conjunction if, unless, as, on condition that.
• Article
The Reason Is Because I Love You The Reason Is That I Love You
It’s Saturday night, 9 pm. You’re sitting on the bench with your sweetheart, watching the rain falling from the sky. All of a sudden you feel the urge to express your deep passion for your sweetie. So you go, “The reason I’m here is because I love you.” Oops. “Is it ‘because’ or ‘that’?” you wonder.
Well, this is a common mistake that we, English learners, often make. This, some argue, is caused by the influence of our own language. We say “The reason i was in here is because i love you”. However, English does not follow the same logic. The verb “is” in the sentence is a linking verb. It is followed by a subject complement. A noun, a noun clause or an adjective can function as a subject complement. However, a subject complement can never be an adverb.
Let’s take a look at this example: “My father is a lawyer”. In this sentence “a lawyer” is a subject complement (a noun). Another example is: “Hilary Duff is pretty”. “Pretty” in this sentence is an adjective. Now, let’s refer to our previous two examples. In “The reason is that I love you” the linking verb “is” is followed by a noun clause “that I love you”. “…because I love you”, on the other hand, is an adverbial clause (it states the reason). This is not acceptable because an adverbial clause follows an independent clause (the main clause of a sentence), as in “I want to marry you because I love you.”
So, next time you’re at your sweetie’s home and you feel the urge to say it, just say it right. “The reason I’m here is that I love you.”
In the article, there are some adverbial clause, namely:
1. So
2. Because
3. That
4. That we
5. However, and
6. As
