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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