Examples of Adverb Clauses
(From A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket)
1. As I said at the very beginning, the book you are holding in your hands does not
have a happy ending.
2. My father was devoured by a manatee, and my mother was washed ashore when
she was pregnant with me.
3. Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events
in your life that have made you cry.
4. Klaus, after Sunny was born, did not like her at all, but by the time she was six
weeks old, the two of them were thick as thieves.
ADJECTIVE CLAUSES give more information about a part of the sentence, usually
the part adjacent to the adjective clause. The first word of an adjective clause is usually
one of these: where, which, who, whom, whose.