Example sentences for: clauses

How can you use “clauses” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If the total of the amounts for all facilities under clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) exceeds theallocation amount under subparagraph (A), multiplying the allocation amount under subparagraph (A) by the ratio of the total of the amounts for the facility under clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) to the total of the amounts for all facilities under clauses (i), (ii), and (iii); and

  • Bruce, it turned out, was the author of the 15-word super-sentence--a creation that not only contains an elliptical adverb clause of comparison, “than I [practised],” and a hidden noun clause, “[that] he stank,” but compacts the four phrases into the subordinate part and the three clauses into the main part.

  • After our scholars have completed their study of descriptive English grammar, they are frequently assigned the writing of a “supersentence”--a single sentence that includes one example of each of the four phrases and three subordinate clauses that are indentified in English grammar.

  • Sentences which use such clauses are softer, more pliant.

  • “I think we will be able to find generalizations in ecology, but they're not going to be simple—there will be a bunch of clauses and restrictions, and animals have a lot of ways to bend the rules.”


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