For example, the equilibrium between liquid and vapor is upset if the temperature is increased. (General rule, or law of nature: it always happens.)
If you start thinking about this game, it will drive you crazy. (Open future condition: it may or may not happen.)
But if you really wanted to be on Malibu Beach, you'd be there. (Unlikely future condition: it probably won't happen.)
If I were you, I would go to the conference center itself and ask to see someone in security. (Impossible future condition: it could never happen.)
«I would have resigned if they had made the decision themselves,» she said. (Impossible past condition: it didn't happen.)
If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now. (Unknown past condition: we don't know the facts.)attention should be also paid to comparative subordinate clauses.
This is a lot more difficult than I expected.earns as much money as I do.think London is less crowded than it used to be. Rodney Huddleston also determines content clauses.usually function as Subject or else Complement of a verb, noun, adjective or preposition:
i. That they accepted the offer is very fortunate. [Subject]. I KNOW she likes it. [Complement of verb]. The FACT that it's so cheap makes me suspicious. [Complement of noun]. We stayed in BECAUSE it was raining. [Complement of preposition] Like main clauses they select for clause type, except that there are no subordinate imperatives:
i. Declarative He didn't know that everybody supported the proposal.. Closed interrogative He didn't know whether everybody supported the proposal.. Open interrogative He didn't know which proposal everybody supported.. Exclamative He didn't know what a lot of them supported the proposal. Declaratives are often marked by the subordinator that; and since that occurs in both the tensed clause and the subjunctive we include both in the declarative class.interrogatives have whether or if instead of the Subject-auxiliary inversion found in main clauses (compare the main clause counterpart of the subordinate clause in [ii]: Did everybody support the proposal?).interrogatives have the interrogative phrase in initial position and normally no Subject-auxiliary inversion (again compare the main clause counterpart of that in [iii]: Which proposal did everybody support?).mostly have the same form as their main clause counterparts, as with [iv].should be mentioned that Participles can function as Adjectives and Participles can operate as Adverbials.’s consider these sets of made-up examples:
1a. The noise made by the car suggested an engine problem. b. Tired from the trip, we went to bed right after dinner. a. The tall women standing in the corner are from Brazil. b. Standing in the corner, the tall women watched the other people in the classroom closely. 1a and 2a show participle clauses that have adjectival function; they come after the noun and are attached to it and have become part of it. They can be analyzed as reduced relative clauses:
1a. The noise that was made by the car suggested an engine problem. a. The tall women who are standing in the corner are from Brazil. While the other clauses have the same types of words and the same organization, they have different functions-and are analyzed as coming from different sourses. 1b and 2b are actually adverbial in function and meaning.
1b. Because we were tired from the trip, we went to bed right after dinner. b. While they were standing in the corner, the tall women watched the other people in the classroom closely. Here's are authentic sentences from the sociology source. They're from a chapter opener that tells the story of an anthropologist's encounters with another culture.
Anthropologist Napolean Chagnon was nearing the end of a three-day journey to the home territory of the Yanomamo, one of the most technologically primitive societies remaining on earth.anthropologist's clothes were soaked with perspiration, and his face and hands were swollenfrom the bites of innumerable gnats swarming around him.and his guide climbed from the boat and walked toward the village, stooping as they pushed their way through the dense undergrowth.the world of Yanomamo, Chagnon experienced a severe case of culture shock, personal disorientation that accompanies exposure to an unfamiliar way of life.twelve thousand Yanomamo live in villages scattered along the border of Venezuala and Brazil.that he would survive at least the afternoon, he was still horrified by his inablility to make any sense of the people surrounding him.
