Adverb Clause Sentence Completion

  • a. Finish each sentence, including a full ADVERB CLAUSE if possible.
  • b. Which adverb clauses can be REDUCED to ADVERB PHRASES? How?
  • c. Which can (must?) be expressed with PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES?

    1. Jimmy stopped playing basketball because
    2. The team practiced until
    3. Although Myra
    4. While the team
    5. Despite
    6. Before Shooter
    7. By the time Norman Dale
    8. After the game
    9. Even though Jimmy was a good basketball player
    10. The men thought, "Now that
    11. since Coach Tibb died.
    12. The team practiced from
    13. Once Jimmy
    14. During
    15. The team practiced for


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    Ann Salzmann
    Intensive English Institute
    University of Illinois