Practice

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Adverbial clause of place

An adverbial clause of place is a subordinate clause in a complex sentence which starts with one of the following conjunctions: wherever; anywhere; everywhere; and where.

Examples:

a. Wherever there are human beings, there are ways of measuring things.

b. Everywhere he goes, he takes along his own measuring tape.

Exercise 1:Fill in each gap with one suitable conjunction of time, place or reason to form adverbial clause of time, place and reason for each of the following sentences. In some cases, there can be more than one choice.

1. ………..work is done on a body, there is a transfer of energy to the body, and so work can be said to be energy in transit.

2. …………. an electric current flows through a wire, two important effects can be observed

3. …………. satellites were used in geodesy, geodetic networks were typically no larger than an individual country or continent.

4. …………..an electric current flows through a wire, two important effects can be observed

5. ………….its name was changed in 1989, the agency announced that it would soon establish regional manufacturing technology centers to speed the spread of new technology.

6. …………… a current begins to flow in a conductor, a field moves out from the conductor.

7. ……………. an electric current flows in a metallic conductor, the flow is in one direction only.

8. …………….. interferometer measures distances in terms of light waves, it permits the definition of the standard meter in terms of the wavelength of light.

9. ……………NIST has unique data-gathering functions, it is the principal agent for the development of federal standards for automatic data processing techniques, for computer equipment, and for computer languages.

10.……………some atoms combine to form solids, one or more electrons are often liberated and can move with ease through the material

11. Egypt is …………… Clepsydra or water clock is believed to have originated.

12. The first scientific study of electrical and magnetic phenomena, however, did not appear until AD 1600, ……………the researches of the English physician William Gilbert were published.

13.Work is also expended ………. a force accelerates a body, such as the acceleration of an airplane because of the thrust forces developed by its jet engines.

14. Physics is ………… you can find answer to almost every phenomenon in nature.

15. The strength of a magnetic field depends on how concentrated the flux is; …………there is a lot of flux flowing, the field is strong.

Exercise 2:Fill in the blank with each of the following given words. Each word is used once.