adverb clause

American  

noun

Grammar.

1. a subordinate clause that functions as an adverb within a main clause.

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Example Sentences

Palestinian citizens of Israel, “although discriminated against,” Beinart declares, waving away discrimination, pooh-poohing it as a mere aside, a trifling factoid worthy only of a meager adverb clause. 

From Salon

The pupil's knowledge of the functions of the adverb is reviewed when he learns the adverb phrase and adverb clause, and is still further illuminated when he comes to study the adverbial objective.

From Project Gutenberg

The adverb clause takes the place of an adverb in modifying a verb, a verbal, an adjective, or an adverb.

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The +adverb clause+ may express +degree+.

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The first as, modified by the adverb clause, answers the question, Good to what extent or degree?

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