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3. After having my wisdom teeth out, I had a milkshake for dinner because I couldn’t chew

anything. (This adverb clause describes why I had a milkshake for dinner.)

There are a few important things to remember about using adverb clauses:

1. Adverb clauses are not complete sentences.
 They are dependent clauses, and must be paired with an independent clause.
2. Adverb clauses begin with subordinate conjunctions.
 Subordinating conjunctions turn an independent clause into a dependent clause
 They help answer questions like “where”; “when?”; “why?”; and “how?”
3. Adverb clauses, like all clauses, must contain a subject and a verb.
 Adverb clauses are different from phrases, which do not require a subject and a verb the
way a clause does.
4. Adverb clauses modify the independent clause in a sentence.
 They add more details, like time, location, reason, condition, degree, concession, and
manner.
5. An adverb clause should not affect a sentence’s grammar.
If you remove an adverb clause, the sentence should still be grammatically correct, like this:

The rabbit didn’t stop hopping until he got back to his hole. Complete sentence
Remove the adverb clause:
The rabbit didn’t stop hopping . until he back to his hole. Complete Sentence

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