This document discusses different types of clauses: adjective clauses modify nouns and usually begin with a relative pronoun; adverb clauses provide more information about the main clause and begin with a subordinating conjunction; and noun clauses replace nouns in sentences and usually begin with "that" or a question word. Examples are provided for each type of clause to illustrate their structures and functions. Some words like "when" can be used to introduce different clause types depending on their role in the sentence.

1. Adjective Clauses
Adverb Clauses
Noun Clauses

2. What is a clause?
A sentence with a subject and a
verb that is part of a longer
sentence

3. Adjective Clauses
(Lesson 6)

4. Adjective Clauses
1) modify a noun
2) usually go after the noun they
modify
3) usually begin with a relative
pronoun

5. Examples of sentences with
adjective clauses:

6. A have a friend who is a computer
programmer.

7. Bill Gates, who is a rich
person, created Microsoft.

8. Adverb Clauses = Adverbial Clause
(Chapter 8)

9. An adverb clause
1) gives more information about
the main clause
2) It can be the first half or the
second half of a complex sentence
3) It begins with a subordinator =
and adverbial expression

10. She went to Canada before she
came to the U.S.
Before she came to the U.S., she
went to Canada

11. I came to the United States so
that I could be reunited with
my family.

12. If she saves enough money, she
will travel to Europe.

13. Noun Clauses:
1) Replaces a noun in the sentence.
2) Can be anywhere in the sentence
because a noun clause can replace the
subject, the object, or the object of a
preposition.
3) Usually begins with “that” or a
question word (“what,” “when,”
“where,” “why,” “who,” etc.)

14. Some words can be used in more
than one kind of clause!
For example, “when”:

15. An adjective clause:
I was born in 1947, when World
War 2 was recently finished.

16. An adverb clause:
I lived in Orange County when I first
got to the U.S.

17. An noun clause:
I don’t know when Bill Gates was
born.