Dependent Clauses: Adverbial, Adjectival, Nominal
webapps.towson.edu › ows › AdvAdjNomClauseDependent clauses may work like adverbs, adjectives, or nouns in complex sentences. 1. Adverbial clauses. Like a single-word adverb, an adverbial clause describes a verb (in the sentence's main clause) and answers one of these questions where? why? how? when? to what degree? An adverbial clause begins with a subordinating conjunction, which makes the clause subordinate (dependent).