Microsoft Word Theoretical Course of English Grammar

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identify a clause of purpose is the use of the verbs 
may (might)
or 
should
as part of its predicate. 
Cf.: 
“He stepped back 
so that she might see everything well
.” 
“The captain spoke Pidgin Italian 
in order that I might understand him perfectly
.”
Adverbial clauses of result. These clauses tell the results of the events described in the 
main clause. It should be noted that the term “clauses of result” doesn’t imply that the result 
was necessarily planned in advance, or that it was consciously aimed at. The result may have 
been brought about without anybody’s intention. Adverbial clauses of result may be connected 
with the main clause in two ways: 
1.
They can be introduced by the conjunction 
that
, which is correlated with 
the pronoun 
such
or adverb 
so
in the main clause: 
“He was 
so
tired 
that he could hardly move
.” 
“She was 
such
a lovely baby 
that
her parents adored her
.” 
2.
They can be introduced by the phrasal conjunction 
so that
or 
so
: 
“In the centre there were candlesticks, brass but polished,
so that they shone like gold
.”
“We paid him immediately, 
so (that) he left contented
.” 
Adverbial clauses of concession (
დათმობითი
გარემოებითი
წინადადება
). These claus-
es express some circumstance despite which the action denoted by the main clause is per-
formed. In other words, adverbial clauses of concession convey an idea that contrasts with the 
main idea of the sentence. Clauses of concession are introduced by the conjunctions 
though, 
although, 
connectors ending in -ever (
however, whoever, whenever, etc
.): 
“
Though she disappoved of their endless discussions
, she had to put up with them.” 
“
Whoever calls
, I’m not at home.” 
“
However tempting the offer might be
, Jim can’t accept it.” 
Another type of concession clauses is the pattern “Predicative (noun or adjective) + as +
subject + link verb,” in which the concessive meaning is not directly expressed by the conjunc-
tion 
as
or by any other single word, but arises out of the combined lexical meanings of different 
words in the sentence. For example: “Clever as he was, he failed to grasp the idea.” In this 

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