Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 38 · Part 1: Part I: The elementary course
37. The adverbial clause
Goal: Your child can find adverbial clauses beginning with when, where, while, because and if.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Page 59 has two model analyses and introduces the adverbial clause with "Flowers bloom when spring comes." Page 60 defines it and gives seven sentences and a model.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask: In "He ran very fast," what does very modify? What does fast modify?
A clause that works like an adverb
SayFlowers bloom when spring comes.
Ask: When do flowers bloom? "When spring comes" answers like an adverb, but it has its own subject and verb.
Read:
An Adverbial Clause is a clause used as an adverbial element.
The book says such clauses often begin with when, where, while, because or if.
Oral practice
Finish these aloud: I will play when... We stayed inside because... I'll help if...
Find the clauses
Point out the adverbial clauses:
I left the spade where I found it.
The bear growled when he saw the hunter.
We traveled slowly, because we wished to see the country.
Analyze one
Use the book's model:
He trembles when it thunders.
Your child names the principal clause and the adverbial clause.
Use it today
Use one sentence with "because" and one with "when" before bedtime.
Answers to the book's problems
where I found it; while you were talking; when he saw the hunter; before my father returns; if you desire it; because we wished to see the country; for my task is finished.
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