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Material for Classroom Reading: The Attributive and Adverbial Clauses and Translation Today we will take the attributive and adverbial clauses to try to understand them and then to put them into Chinese. Understanding the Attributive Clauses: The attributive clauses are sth that characterizes the style of long English sentences. The attributive clauses may be divided, in terms of the form, into two kinds, the restrictive clauses and non-restrictive clauses. The functions of the attributive clauses vary from modifying or defining the antecedent, providing a further explanation to it, to adding to the main clauses a cause, result, condition concession and etc. Restrictive and non-restrictive clauses 1. The boys who wanted to play the football were disappointed, because it began to rain when they were about to leave the classroom. The restrictive clause indicates that there were boys who did not plan to go to the sports-ground. Cf: The boys, who… 2. I will now introduce the candidate in support of whom I wish to speak. 3. A nation will take as its mode of existence cheating and flattering, killing and enslaving during the time when it is in a state of backwardness. B. Clauses that offer a contrast to the main clause cause result concession condition 4. The name of Figs, which had been a byword of reproach, became as respectable and popular a nick-name as any other in use in the school. 5. She begged the old gentleman to give the money to dear Rebecca, who must want it, while she herself lacked for nothing. 6. So she wisely determined to render her position with the family comfortable and secure, and to this end resolved to make friends with anyone around her who would at all interfere with her comfort. 7. Happy is the man who marries her. 8. My assistant, who had carefully read through the instructions before doing his experiment