Exercise 1

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 454.

Complex Sentences with Adverbial Clauses of Time.

Write out the conjunctions used to join the adverbial clauses of time.

1. The earth floor shook a little as they passed (Greene).

2. When he entered the house she greeted him with a bright face (Gordon).

3. Well, put your other shoe on while Tad's reading to Sue (Carter).

4. I must get a shine before I see the minister (Greene).

5. After I had met her she told me about her past (Daily Worker).

6. Roy … looked over the northern country until he saw what he expected to see (Aldridge).

7. He'll stay till I come out (Aldridge).

8. She hangs up on me as soon as she recognizes my voice (Bellow).

9. Don't reckon I'll ever get back to Albany as long as I live (Saxton).

10. I haven't thought of any one or anything else since I saw you last (Dreiser).

11. He kissed her first on one cheek and then on the other whilst she stood helpless with the roasting tin, protesting (Greenwood).

12. It was some while since the pain had returned, now that I was lying still and holding my breath (Greene).

13. For some days afterwards he had an uncomfortable sensation of guiltiness whenever he was in Miss Mason's presence (London).[3]

14. No sooner had the first stepped into the clearing than all the lights went out as if by magic (Tolkien).[4]

15. He had scarcely said the word, when Charmides entered (Jowett).

16. Hong Kong is all hill except when the fog shuts out everything except the sea (Kipling).

17. I had hardly finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was putting in the horse (Doyle).