Exercise 5 Define the type of clause introduced by when, where, how and why. Name the type of connective. 1. Upon my word I don't know why she should think that (Maugham). 2. What she simply couldn't make out— what was miraculous—was how she should have guessed Miss Fulton's mood so exactly and so instantly (Mansfield).
He said he would never forgive himself if he dragged Mother round the country and let her take a severe cold at a time when she might be having a beautiful rest (Leacock).
Don't be a fool. Leave the car where it is. (G. Greene).
The blue room always looks very nice when you have done it up with clean curtains and that sort of thing (Molesworth).
But how it happened, beats me (Strange). 7. That's where we go to church to Ardon (Molesworth). 8. A little girl of eleven or twelve, with a shag of fair hair waving as she runs, gives a slight shiver as she arrives breathless in the porch where her elder sister is awaiting her (Molesworth).
9. And he said that that was principally why he had fallen in with this idea of a fishing trip, so as to give Mother a little quiet (Leacock). 10. Some people don't know how lucky they are (Maugham). 11. Why young maidens, who hunt in couples and invariably dress alike should differ as much in character and temperament as Boadicea and Mrs. Hemans affords a speculation as fantastic as it is futile (Coppard). 13. Did it matter where he went, what he did, or when he did it? (Galsworthy). 13. What I want to know is when you're going to get married (London). 14. The reason why the two s-endings are thus treated differently is the same that has led to the retaining of such irregular plurals as men and wives (Jespersen). 15. Although Berta Young was thirty, she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement (Mansfield). 16. Was that where it happened? (Strange). 17. How long he had been sitting in that curious state of vacancy he had no notion when he saw Joe standing a little behind him to the right (Galsworthy). 18. For there were moments when he rushed into battle where no battle was (Mansfield). 19. That's how I wanted it (G. Greene). 20. How this death would affect Fleur had begun to trouble Soames (Galsworthy). 21. He wants to write a play for me. One act. One man. Decides to commit suicide. Gives all the reasons why he should and why he shouldn't. (Mansfield). 22. Adrian went down to the long panelled room, where the family was waiting (Galsworthy). 23. But the result was always the same; he paid up in the end, and though he would be ashamed to admit it to himself he knew why he paid (G. Greene). 24. These last (yellow pears) she had bought to tone it with the. new dining-room carpet. Yes, that did sound rather farfetched and absurd, but it was really why she had bought them (Mansfield). 25. They were shiny and new, and he had set them beside him on a chair, where he could gloat over them while he ate (Strange). 26. I wondered where he was going, and why he carried the bag (Mansfield). 27. Wealth and in a strange way honour too, were always just round the corner when Cec was in trouble (G. Greene). 28. Now we know further-that you were present at Riddlesdale Lodge on the night when Captain Cathcart was shot (Sayers). 29. One August bank holiday in the late nineties they travelled fifty miles to compete in a town where prizes of solid cash were to be given instead of the usual objects of glittering inutility (Coppard).