Adverb Clauses Exercises:
A. Combine the following sentences using adverb clauses at the end of the sentence.
1. We watched the robins. They raised their young in our apple tree.
2. Becky read the book. It was recommended by a friend.
3. Dad donates his suits to charity. He has worn them a year.
4. The policemen delayed the drivers. The wrecks were cleared.
5. Ann ate an apple. She studied her vocabulary.
B. Combine the following sentences using adverb clauses at the beginning of the
sentence.
1. Frank started medical training. He drove a forklift for a living.
2. The rains had started the mud slides. The homes were not safe to live in.
3. Older people love to sit in the park. They feed the birds and visit.
4. I enjoyed camping out. I was much younger.
5. Joe recognised the man. The man had stopped his car to help.
C. Find the adverb clauses in these sentences. What are their meanings (time,
place...)? If it is a reduced adverb clause, add the missing words.
1. You seem very happy when you help other people.
2. While you wait, we will detail your car.
3. I am happier than I ever was before.
4. That horse is more obstinate than a mule.
5. The woman took notes while being taught to cook with broccoli.
6. Ben fields baseballs better than he hits.
7. As the lions approached the carcass, the cheetahs retreated once more.
8. While eating, I choked on a bone.
Summary
Identify the details or examples that are not major ideas. Be prepared
to explain your choices.
Dinner groups are a great solution for people who hate to cook for themselves. A
dinner group is a group of friends that decides to eat dinner together every night. The job
of being the cook rotates every day that the group meets for dinner. Most college dinner
groups meet Monday through Thursday, to allow group members time on the weekends to
go on dates and visit friends. If there are four people, everyone cooks dinner one day each
week from Monday to Thursday. If you are only in charge of cooking one meal each week,
you can simply go to someone’s house on the other days each week and not need to spend
time cooking. Dinner groups allow busy students to eat healthy meals every night, but only
cook once a week. This is an excellent way to eat healthier and maybe even make a new
friend.
Read the original paragraph and the summary.
Original:
Getting married in the United States often involves many different types of parties.
Some couples have an engagement party, which is for family and friends to express
congratulations to the couple after they get engaged. The bride typically is invited to a
bridal shower, which is a party for all of her friends (usually only female friends) to
celebrate the upcoming wedding with her. After the wedding ceremony, there is usually a
wedding reception, which is another large party. The wedding reception includes many
traditional activities, like cutting the cake and throwing the bouquet. All of these
different parties are part of many American weddings.
Summary:
Getting married in the United States has many different events, such as engagement
parties for some people where friends and family congratulate the couple and a wedding
reception which is a party where there are many traditional things like throwing the
bouquet to find the next bride and cutting the cake for the bride and the groom; then the
couple is very tired!
Evaluate the summary based on the following criteria:
explains the most important parts of the original.
is written in your own words.
keeps the original meaning.
does not merely “cut” and “copy” from the original.
is shorter than the original.
Revise the summary on a piece of paper.
Choose a paragraph to summarize. Write your summary on a piece of
paper.
#1: Serving others
Serving others can help make people happier in any situation. When people are feeling
stressed or unhappy, it is often because they are focused on their problems and worries.
Focusing on our own problems and worries makes us feel more stressed about them. When
we focus on helping other people with their problems, we feel happier because we are not
focused on ourselves. Helping others also helps in the other areas of building happiness: it
strengthens our relationships with others and it helps us feel more gratitude. When we
serve others, we can become good friends with the people we help because they see how
much we care about them. We feel more gratitude because we see the problems other
people face and we realize that we are not the only ones who struggle with certain
problems. Serving others is an essential key to living a happier life.
#2: Online classes
Online classes, on the other hand, do not offer face-to-face interaction and they are
more limited in their instruction methods, yet they offer greater flexibility for
scheduling. The interaction between teachers and students in an online class is typically
time-delayed, meaning that students send an email and wait for a response. Interaction
with classmates is less personal than it would be in a traditional class because when
student-to-student interaction is required, it is typically limited to email or an online
discussion board. The method of instruction in online classes is typically limited to videos
and reading articles that can be sent to students electronically. Many of the hands-on
experiences that students get in a traditional class are virtually impossible to have in an
online class. Rather than being able to touch and feel rocks in the geology class, students
will be limited to videos or pictures of rocks. The scheduling is very flexible. Students
typically enroll in online classes because they need the ability to take classes at night,
early in the morning, or even during their lunch break at work. The pace of online classes is
typically determined by the students, so their personal and work schedules do not need to
be completely changed. While the interaction and instruction may be limitations of an
online class, the scheduling is very flexible.
