7.3.1 Clauses

• Adverbial clauses and their types
• Noun clauses and their functions
• Position and punctuation of adverbial clauses
• Using clauses to show relationships between ideas

• identify adverbial clauses and their types
• identify noun clauses and their functions
• punctuate adverbial clauses correctly
• use subordinate clauses to show how ideas relate

“How does a single word show the relationship between two facts?”

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1. Adverbial clauses
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Clauses that tell you when, why, how and under what conditions.
2. Noun clauses
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Whole clauses doing the job of a single noun.
3. Commas with adverbial clauses
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   When a fronted adverbial clause takes a comma, and when a final one usually does not.
4. Showing how two facts relate
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Choosing an adverbial or noun clause so a sports sentence shows time, cause, condition or a fact-as-thing.