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s entence, which have been considered above (p. 225 ff.). Others are more specific for the complex sentence and do not fit into "pigeonholes" arranged in accordance with the analysis of the simple sentence. Among those that will easily fit into such "pigeonholes"
are clauses denoting place, those denoting time (or temporal clauses), clauses of cause, purpose,
and concession, and also those of result. There are also clauses of comparison and of degree.
We may mention briefly the types of clauses which do not give much occasion for theoretical discussion, and turn our chief
attention to those which do, and also to comparing subordinate clauses to the corresponding adverbial modifiers in a simple sentence, as stated above.
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