COMLEX SENTENCES WITH ADVERBIAL CLAUSES OF RESULT

Exercise 1. Point out the adverbial clauses of result and define the conjunctions together with the prepositions or point out the sentences with asyndetic subordination.

 

1.When they reached the front it was dark, and the shutters were closed, so that nothing of the interior could be seen (Hardy ). 2. So heavy was the stress of the storm just at this place that I had the hardest task to win my way up the hill (Wells). 3. They replied in such a voice that he no longer pretended ignorance (Galsworthy). 4. Roses on the veranda were still in bloom, and the hedges evergreen, so that there was almost nothing of middle-aged autumn to chill the mood (Galsworthy). 5. So great was the shortage of paper in the Confederacy now that Gerald’s note was written between the lines of her last letter to him ( Mitchell). 6. I am so crazy about music I don’t care what colour he is (Parker). 7. Several shots were fired; but such was the hurry of the Marksman that no one appeared to have taken effect( Stevenson).