Adverbial Clauses

Step 5 - Scrambled Exercises:

Example: (Write on board)

like a shot / tears streaming / was out of the control room / when it was over / Susan

Anonymous, Primary Colors

  1. and rubbed his swollen ankle / finally / while he gained his breath / removed one boot / he huddled by a fallen log Alexander Key, The Forgotten Door

  1. and listened to the fire crack / while he put the food in his mouth and chewed thoughtfully / when the sun set / and cooked a small supper / he crouched by the path Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

  1. took a hammer with a homemade handle / when kernel-picking time came / the boy or the father / and cracked as many walnuts as could be kerneled in a night / went to the flat rock / before it was dark each day William H. Armstrong, Sounder

  1. who begged for food and shelter / ragged, hungry, and footsore / one autumn night / and opening it / when the first heavy rains were falling and a cold wind whistled through the valley / a knock came at the minister’s door / he found an Indian boy Louisa May Alcott, “Onawandah”

  1. although oil had kept off the frost so far / when the seal was dead / before it could freeze / getting rid of the wet from her coat / the bear attended first to herself Norah Burke, “Polar Night”