Exercise 2

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Exercise 1

Complex Sentences with Adverbial clauses of Result

Write out the conjunctions used to join the adverbial clauses of result and point out the sentences with asyndetic subordination. Answer the following questions:

1. With which words in the principal clause can the conjunction “that” be correlated?

2. With which conjunction is the adverbial clause of result usually separated by a comma?

1. When they reached the front it was dark, and the shutters were closed, so that nothing of the interior could be seen (Hardy).

2. So heavy was the stress of the storm just at this place that I had the hardest task to win my way up the hill (Wells)[8].

3. They replied in such a voice that he no longer pretended ignorance (Galsworthy).

4. Roses on the veranda were still in bloom, and the hedges evergreen, so that there was almost nothing of middle aged autumn to chill the mood (Galsworthy).

5. So great was the shortage of paper in Confederacy now that Gerald's note was written between the lines of her last letter to him (Mitchell).

6. The burglar wore gloves so there were no fingerprints to be found (Hornby).

7. I'm so crazy about music I don't care what colour he is (Parker).

Fill in the blanks with the appropriate conjunctions and separate the adverbial clause of result by a comma wherever necessary.

1. Also she spoke in a curiously loud and ringing tone … what she said echoed audibly all the way down the room (Murdoch).

2. The activity of translating which had seemed the plainest thing in the world turned out to be an act so complex and extraordinary … it was puzzling to see how human being could perform it (Murdoch).

3. None of them had seen the Marcians, and they had but the vaguest ideas of them … they piled me with questions (Wells).

4. Whenever I have gone there have been either so many people … I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures … I have not been able to see the people, which was worse (Wilde).

5. The marriage of Soames with Annette took place in Paris on the last day of January 1901 with such privacy … not even Emily was told until it was accomplished (Galsworthy).

6. Bosinney's office was in Sloane Street, close at hand … he would be able to keep his eye continually on the plans (Galsworthy).

7. He was under a considerable debt of gratitude to his hostess; on the other hand, Denver's position was such … minor considerations really had to go to the wall (Sayers).