Adverbial Clause
Adverbial Clause
Adverbial Clause adalah anak kalimat yang berfungsi sebagai kata keterangan atau Adverb.
A. Position
1 Initial position
Pattern
: Conjunction + Subject + Verb, Subject + Verb
Example : After I finish my assignment, I will take you home
2 Middle Position
Pattern
: Subject, Conjunction + Subject + Verb, Subject
Example : War, when it is waged for a long time, can destroy the morale of country
3 Final Position
Subject + Verb + Conjunction + Subject + Verb
(untuk semua jenis Adverbial Clause)
Example : Richard didnt come to our party because he is very busy
Subject + Verb, Conjunction + Subject + Verb
(khusus Adverbial Clause of Contrast)
Example : Rouge wants to stop, whereas I want to continue
B. Kinds of Adverbial Clause
1 Adverbial Clause of Time
(anak kalimat yang berfungsi sebagai kata keterangan Waktu)
Conjunction
After
: Setelah
So long as
: Selama
Before
: Sebelum
Whenever
: Kapanpun
When
: Ketika
Every time
: Setiap waktu
While
: Sewaktu
The firs time
: Pertama kali
As
: Sewaktu
The last time
: Terakhir kali
By the time
: Menjelang
The next time
: di waktu lain
Since
: Sejak
Ever since
: Sejak waktu itu
Until/Till
: Hingga
Shortly after
: Segera setelah
As soon as
: Segera setelah
Shortly before
: Segera sebelum
Once
: Selama
As long as
: Selama
The ordinal time (that)
: Pada waktu yang berurutan
A short time after/before
: Singkat waktu setelah/sebelum
A little while after/before
: Singkat waktu setelah/sebelum
Not long after/before
: Tidak begitu lama sebelum/setelah
Soon after
: segera setelah
Example : When (I was) a boy, I went to lake every summer
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Preposition
Because of
Due to
On account of
: Disebabkan oleh
: Dikarenakan pada
: atas pertimbangan pada
Example
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: Since he couldnt take his wife with him, he decided not to go to the conference
b. Adversative Clause
Whereas
: Padahal
Where
: Sementara
: Meskipun
: Meskipun
: Meskipun
While
When
: Sementara
: Sementara
Example
: While Robert is very friendly with everyone, his brother makes very few
friends
Note
: Untuk Clause ini, meskipun Sub clause ada di awal atau di akhir tetap
menggunakan tanda koma (,)
: Agar
: Agar
: Agar
Conjunction
So that
So (adverb/adjective) that
Such (a/an + adjective + noun)
So many/much (Noun)
: Sehingga
: Begitu Sehingga
: Begitu Sehingga
: Begitu banyak Sehingga
Example : He sat in the front row, so that he heard every word of the lecture
: This is such an ugly chair that I want to give them away
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