Adverbial Clauses in Academic Style

Abstract

This bachelor paper deals with adverbial clauses in academic style. It examines the adverbial clauses occurrence and concentrates on forms and functions they have in a sentence. The main attention is paid to time, reason, condition and concessive clauses. The theoretical part focuses mainly on the basic features of adverbial clauses, the structural types and syntactic functions. Furthermore, it defines individual semantic roles of adverbial clauses. In the analytical part, the samples of adverbial clauses taken from academic style are examined in regard to their function, form and the use of subordinators. At the same time, adverbial clauses are investigated in the point of the given functional style.