13.6.3 exercise 3: Abbreviation of subordinate clause |
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You can speculate about the question why it is not possible to substitute a concessive clause (Although he never studies he passes all his exams), a final clause (I said it to him in order that he learns something), adversative clauses (He annoyed me, but I didn't say that to him) cannot be substituted by a gerundio. The reason may be a historical one, only the clauses which could be simplified with a latin ablativus absolutus can be substituted with a gerund. But besides that it wouldn't be possible to deduce the type of subordinate clause if there were too many possibilities. Without conjunctions, which reveal the type of relationship between the main sentence and the subordinate clause, things would be too complicated if all kinds of subordinate clauses could be substituted by a gerund.
Define in the following sentences the type of subordinate clauses and transform the gerundio in a subordinate clause.
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