ClearTips: Stunning sentences
Conditioned
In addition to embellishing or complicating
the main clause, you can condition it with another clause beginning with
when, if, because, since, as, and their many colleagues.
When Mr. Clinton
toasts Mr. Jiang at the White House next week, there will be
no shortage of critics to accuse him of supping with the devil..
The when
clause tells us when there will be no shortage of critics.
Art museums were stodgy places until 1958, when
Frank Lloyd Wright plopped a concrete cupcake on New York's Fifth
Avenue.
If these were to shrink, all would
suffer.
The court refused to suppress the video
and sound tapes of the Berger search because the Constitution
forbids censorship even of ill-gotten information.
Since Europe opened its skies to competition
last spring, new little airlines have been taking wing.
As evolution goes, from
cave to restaurant is not a huge leap.
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