Adverb Clauses and Phrases in Field of Dreams

ADVERB CLAUSES * PRACTICE * * examples in Hoosiers
Choose an appropriate conjunction or preposition for each blank from the lists given above each section. Then click to see the one that was used in the movie. (Of course, others may also be be possible.)

TIME:
AFTER - AS - AS LONG AS - AS SOON AS - AT - BEFORE - BY - DURING - FOR - FROM - IN - ON - ONCE - SINCE - TO - UNTIL - WHEN - WHILE

RAY AND HIS FAMILY

  1. He was born in North Dakota 1896 and never saw a big city he came back from France 1918.
  2. He played in the minors a year or two, but nothing ever came of it
  3. I was 10, playing baseball got to be like eating vegetables or taking out the garbage
  4. But '58 the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other things to fight about
  5. he was as old as I am now, he was ancient.
  6. a while I wanted to come home, but I didn't know how
  7. He died I could take it back.
  8. graduation, we moved to the Midwest and stayed with her family we could (almost a full afternoon.)
  9. Annie and I got married June of '74
  10. Ray, the bank opens the morning, they'll foreclose
  11. Let us buy you out. We'll leave the house. You can live on it rent free you want
  12. You can't take off for Boston we're going broke in Iowa
THE VOICE
  1. I heard the voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.
  2. What if the voice calls you're gone?
TERENCE MANN
  1. Terence Mann was a warm and gentle voice of reason a time of great madness.
  2. other people were chanting "Burn, baby, burn," he was talking about love and peace and understanding.
  3. the early 70's, the guy had decided people had become either too extremist or too apathetic to listen to him, so he stopped writing books.
  4. Annie, this guy hasn't been to a live baseball game 1958.
  5. Something will happen there. I don't know what, but we'll find out it does
  6. I just need you to come with me a little while
  7. I'm going to beat you with a crowbar you go away.
  8. I haven't published a word 17 years.
  9. His father, who lives in Baltimore, notified police receiving no answer to repeated telephone calls.
DR. GRAHAM
  1. What makes this one so special we have to travel half way across the country to find him 16 years he died?
  2. they cleaned out his office, they found boxes of blue hats that he never got around to give her.
  3. Years ago five minutes you came this close.
  4. I'd have liked to have had that chance, just once, to stare down a big league pitcher, to stare him down, and just he goes into his windup, wink.
  5. We just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives they're happening
  6. To feel the tingle in your arms you connect with the ball.
  7. Son, if I'd only gotten to be a doctor five minutes, now that would have been a tragedy
SHOELESS JOE AND THE PLAYERS
  1. They haven't done that years. My dad did that a while, but that was the 20's.
  2. It's been 68 years I wore this uniform.
  3. I've heard that old men wake up and scratch itchy legs that have been dust over 50 years.
  4. a place touches you like this, the wind never blows so cold again.
  5. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat they were children and cheered their heroes.
  6. There comes a time all the cosmic tumblers have clicked into place and the universe opens itself up a few seconds to show you what's possible."
REASON/PURPOSE/RESULT:
AS - AS A RESULT OF - AS LONG AS - BECAUSE (OF) - DUE TO - FOR - NOW THAT - SINCE - SO - SUCH
  1. I'm offering you a way to keep your home I love my sister
  2. Now people like you think I must be miserable I'm not involved any more
  3. The shopkeepers in town would stock blue hats they knew if Doc walked by, he'd buy one.
  4. Yet no child was ever denied these essentials, in the background there was always Doctor Graham
  5. That's what I wish for. A chance to squint at a sky it hurts your eyes just to look at it
  6. It was funny, the way he described towns, you know, finding you a job you could play on their team
CONCESSION/CONTRAST:
ALTHOUGH - DESPITE - IN SPITE OF - INSTEAD (OF) - THOUGH - WHERE - WHILE
  1. Mother Goose, I was put to bed at night to stories of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson.
PLACE/MANNER/COMPARISON:
AS - LIKE - THAN - WHERE
  1. He settled in Chicago, he quickly learned to live and die with the White Sox.
  2. Dad used to say nobody could hit Shoeless Joe Jackson.
  3. He never made it a ballplayer, so he tried to get his son to make it for him.
  4. Playing baseball got to be eating vegetables or taking out the garbage.
  5. By the time he was I am now, he was ancient.
  6. Ray, this is nuttier building the baseball field.
  7. I feel it I've ever felt anything in my life.
  8. They're talking about banning books again! Really subversive books The Wizard of Oz.
  9. And I say smut and filth this has no place in our schools.
  10. It was the '60's again!
  11. I know a lot more you think I know.
  12. a small boy, he had a bat named "Rosebud."
  13. I haven't published a word in 17 years, and still I have to endure lunatics you.
  14. You should be entitled to you want.
  15. There's a place things that happen, and if you want to go, I can take you.
  16. You know, I couldn't sleep tonight. Usually I sleep a baby.
  17. It was coming this close to your dreams, and then watch them brush past you a stranger in the crowd.
  18. 68 years since I wore this uniform. It still fits me a glove.
  19. It's so beautiful here. For me, well, for me it's a dream come true. Can I ask you something? Is this heaven?
  20. Getting thrown out of baseball was having part of me amputated.
  21. He looks a baby out there next to those guys.
  22. Ray, there was a reason they chose me, just there was a reason they chose you and this field.
  23. America has rolled by an army of steamrollers. It's been erased a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again.


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Ann Salzmann
Intensive English Institute
University of Illinois