Topic 8 Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses – Revision questions

1. What is the difference between the complex and compound sentence?

 

 

 

2. How many sentence elements must be expressed by a clause in order to have a complex sentence instead of a simple one?

 

 

3. Which four major groups of dependent/subordinate clauses can you distinguish?

 

 

 

4. Which type of dependent clauses is similar to noun phrases in their functions? Present you own examples!

 

 

5. How can nominal clauses be further classified?

 

 

6. Explain the difference between an adverbial clause of concession and that of condition?

 

 

7. Which major and minor types of conditions do you know? Add examples of all types!

 

 

8. What do you know about clauses of purpose? Which clauses of purpose are usually expressed by to-infinitive clauses?

 

 

9. What do you know about the subject of non-finite or verbless clauses?

 

 

10. Present an example of a sentential relative clause!

 

 

11. What do you know about nominal relative clauses? Add one example!

 

 

12. What do you know about clauses of similarity and comparison?

 

 

13. What are supplementive clauses? Present one example of a supplementive clause expressing either a temporal or causal relationship!