adverbial clause

ADVERBIAL CLAUSE


Definition:
A dependent clause used as an adverb within a sentence to indicate time, place, condition, contrast, concession, reason, purpose, or result.
An adverb clause (also known as an adverbial clause) begins with a subordinating conjunction (such as if, when, because, although) and includes a subject and a predicate.
Examples:
• "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
(newspaper editor to Senator Ransom Stoddart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 1962)

• "All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."
(James Thurber)

• Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
(Helen Keller)

• "The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day, and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food."
(James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1916)

• "I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle."
(Mitch Hedberg)

• "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
(Mae West)

• "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross."
(Sinclair Lewis, 1935)

• "When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best."
(Herbie Hancock)

• "And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be."
(John Lennon and Paul McCartney, "Let It Be")

• "If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store."
(Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, 1992)

• "According to legend, when Lady Godiva pleaded with her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to cancel a burdensome tax he had levied against his subjects, he agreed to do so only if she rode naked through the city."
(Jim Hargan, "The City of Lady Godiva," British Heritage, January 2001)

• "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."
(Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture, 2008)


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A bad experience

At that time the day after I came home from school for elementary school, when i was 7th years old, I'm playing in front of the bike home while waiting for friends, I tried riding my bike around the swivel rotates around the house, I ride a bicycle from the low and I tried to pedal faster.
After a while I was playing itself finally friends I brought with me a bike, the five of us playing together at my perumahan elementary school yard where I live, racing - racing bike as tight as possible.
We played together until the afternoon, I was too tired until just before sunset I and friends, I rushed home to their homes – each, I taked bike quickly toward the gate out of the school field, I unknowingly hit the flagpole in front of me, in a collision that tight I fell off my bike and my head hit the pole.
I fell, my forehead when I woke up covered in blood, and then I ran toward the house, then I was taken kesebuah clinic not far from the residence where I live, after entry into the treatment room I was immediately treated by doctors and treated with stitches as much as four times again in my forehead.
And since bad things 11th years ago, it was a lesson for my experience, and I am always careful when riding bicycles or motorcycles.