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GRAMMAR REVIEW
REDUCING ADVERBIAL CLAUSES TO ADVERBIAL PHRASES
Task 1:
Observe the following sentences. Compare the sentences in column A to those in column B.
Column A
Column B
When Cut Nyak Dhien heard this, she was enraged and swore to destroy the Dutch.
Hearing this, Cut Nyak Dhien was enraged and swore to destroy the Dutch.
When Cut Nyak Dhien learned that Teuku Umar would allow her to fight, she accepted his proposal.
Learning that Teuku Umar would allow her to fight, Cut Nyak Dhien accepted his proposal.
Because Teuku Umar was undersupplied, he surrendered to Dutch.
Undersupplied, Teuku Umar surrendered to Dutch.
Although Cut Nyak Dhien desperately fought back, she was captured.
Despite her desperate fight back, Dhien was captured.
Discuss the answer to the following questions with your classmate.
1. What makes the sentences in column A different from the sentences in column B?
2. What do you think about the length of the sentences in column A and column B?
3. How do we reduce clauses to become phrases?
4. Sentences in column A contain adverbial clauses. Sentences in column B
contain adverbial phrases. How do we reduce clauses to become phrases? Pay attention to the bold-typed parts of the sentences.
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