Unit 3 Online World

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Purpose, reason and resut clauses

Cause

As	it is late	,	we should go home.		We should go home	as	it’s late.
Since						since
Because						because
Seeing that						seeing that
	subordinate clause.	,	main clause		main clause		subordinate clause
COMPLEX SENTENCE					COMPLEX SENTENCE

These indicate the reason or cause of something. Because is an adjunct and seeing that is informal.

We never see Harry these days	,	for	he has grown fat and lazy
main clause	,	for	subordinate clause
COMPLEX SENTENCE

Because of	the weather	,	we stayed at home.		We stayed at home	because of	the weather
on account of						on account of
owing to						owing to
due to						due to
	noun phrase	,	main clause		main clause		noun phrase
COMPLEX SENTENCE					COMPLEX SENTENCE

Consequence

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Online exercise 1