Clauses worksheet for CBSE class 8
A clause is a group of words that makes perfect sense. Every clause has a subject and a verb. Clauses can be independent or dependent. Dependent clauses are also called subordinate clauses.
There are three types of subordinate clauses in English – adjective clause, adverb clause and noun clause. Adjective clauses are also known as relative clauses. This English grammar worksheet tests your understanding of different types of subordinate clauses.
Worksheet
Underline the subordinate clauses in the following sentences and state whether they are adjective clauses, noun clauses or adverb clauses.
1. I had a strange thing happen to me when I was twelve.
2. She was hardly inside the house before the kids started screaming.
3. As soon as she agreed to marry him, she started having serious doubts.
4. You will get to speak English more easily as times goes by.
5. I don’t know how we are going to get over the river.
6. I didn’t have much time to talk to her because I was leaving for England in two hours.
7. I’m going to be working all day tomorrow, so I won’t have time to shop.
8. If I ever find the person who did that, I’ll kill him.
9. I looked a real fool when I fell in the river.
10. She was speaking so softly that we could not hear her at all.
Answers
1. when I was twelve. (Adverb clause of time)
2. before the kids started screaming. (Adverb clause of time)
3. As soon as she agreed to marry him (Adverb clause of time)
4. as times goes by. (Adverb clause of time)
5. how we are going to get over the river. (Noun clause)
6. because I was leaving for England in two hours. (Adverb clause of reason)
7. so I won’t have time to shop. (Adverb clause of reason)
8. If I ever find the person (Adverb clause of condition) who did that (Adjective clause),
9. when I fell in the river. (Adverb clause of time)
10. that we could not hear her at all. (Adverb clause of result)
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Number 7 is a COMPOUND sentence. Moreover, the second clause is the RESULT of the first and NOT the REASON for the first.
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No 8 was a bit complicated. I still don’t understand it.
Not 8 . No 7 was a bit complicated.
If I ever find the person (Adverb clause of condition) who did that (Adjective clause), I’ll kill him.
There are three clauses in this sentence.
If I ever find the person
who did that
I will kill him.
Here I will kill him is the main clause. It is easy to figure this out. Main clauses are not introduced by conjunctions or relative pronouns. As for the first clause ‘if I ever find the person’, it is an adverb clause. If expresses a condition and clauses introduced by if are adverb clauses of condition.
The second clause ‘who did that’ says something about the noun person. Since it modifies a noun, it is an adjective clause.
I hope that is clear now.
Not 8 . No 7 was a bit complicated.
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