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FREE
RELATIVE
CLAUSES

When the doctor told my sister [that

he

considered

<it

unfair

(PROto

remind Jarvis of {what he had

discovered})>], he forgot (PROto
mention the fact {that the dog
[opwe kept] had persistently refused

We were all standing in his tiny bedroom

when the oldest of his three sons came to him
in order to complain that the oven they'd just
bought
wasn't working properly

He told me
that whenever I fancied criticizing
anyone
I should remember that all the
people

I should remember
that all the people in this
world
havent had the same
experience
that Ive had

ADVERBIA
L
CLAUSES

When he arrived in the apartment,

he discovered that Marion had accepted the invitation
though, earlier that morning,
she had called to excuse herself politely.

{(Al)though
bad},

the

weather

is

they will have to paint the

windows.
{Bad though the weather is},
they will have to paint the
windows.

I usually get up early so that I have time to run

in the park