Connectors

Conjunctions

Connectives

link clauses and express the relation between them.

perform two functions: link clauses and are a part of the sentence

Conjunctive words

Relative words

Introduce subordinate subject, predicative and object clauses

Introduce attributive clauses

Conjunctive pronouns

Conjunctive adverbs

Relative pronouns

Relative adverbs

that, whether, because, as, as if

who, whose, which, what

when, whenever, where, wherever, why, how

who, whose, which, that, as

when, where, how

Nominal

Attributive

Adverbial

nominal clauses have a function approximating to that of a noun or a nominal phrase

attributive clauses function as modifiers to a word of nominal character

adverbial clauses function as an adverbial modifier to the verb

subject

clauses

predicative

clauses

object

clauses

appositive clauses

limiting

clauses

descriptive

clauses

Adverbial clauses of time

Adverbial clauses of place

Adverbial clauses of purpose

Adverbial clauses of manner

Adverbial clauses of comparison

Adverbial clauses of condition

Adverbial clauses of result

Adverbial clauses of cause

Adverbial clauses of concession

a subject clause functions as a subject of the main clause

a predicative clause functions as a predicative to the link verb within the main clause

an object clause functions as an object to verbs in the main clause

an appositive clause, refers to a noun of the main clause

Connectors which introduce subject clauses

Types of subject clauses

Examples

Conjunctions: that, if, whether, whether... or, because, the way

Conjunctive pronouns: who, whoever, what, whatever, which

Conjunctive adverbs: where, wherever, when, whenever, how, why.

1. When a subject clause precedes the predicate of the main clause

2. When a subject clause is introduces by formal introductory it

1. What I need is a piece of good advice.

2. It seemed unfair to him that he should suffer more than his wife.