How to Recognize an Adverb Clause?
How to recognize an adverb clause?
An adverb clause can be recognized using the following criteria:
1) It starts with a conjunction.
2) It has a subject and a finite verb.
3) It answers any of these questions: Where? When? How? How often? How long? How likely? To what degree? Why? And so forth.
John bought that book because he liked the author.
In the above sentence, "because he liked the author" is an adverb clause.
We can see that it follows all criteria:
1) It starts with a conjunction ("because").
2) It has a subject ("he") and a finite verb ("liked").
3) It answers the question "why?".