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Link to Part 1 - https://youtu.be/ZmwWGcXA7us
Link to Pat 3 - https://youtu.be/QKnGIEXHrzY
Click here to study the vocabulary from the story in this lesson. http://www.englishwithjennifer.com/vocabulary.story.htm

This is a lesson in four parts.
Part 1 - "Awake and Asleep" (a short story with reduced clauses). Review what adverb clauses are and why phrases are different.
Part 2 - Learn how to reduce adverb clauses of time.
Part 3 - Learn how to reduce adverb clauses of reason, how to make the phrases negative, and how to work with perfect and passive verbs.
Part 4 - Two review exercises.

INDEX for Part 2:
0:08 What does reducing a clause mean?
0:15 How to reduce adverb clauses of time (general).
0:26 An example of a reduced adverb clause of time.
0:54 Which clauses can be reduced?
1:41 The specific steps for reducing an adverb clause of time.
4:03 Omitting the time words (subordinating conjunctions).
4:30 Using "upon."
4:53 Word order in a sentence and the use of commas.
6:35 Exercise A. Changing phrases back into full adverb clauses of time.

TEACHERS: Click here for a related post on WordPress.
https://englishwithjennifer.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/teaching-adverb-phrases-with-more-support/

Note at the end of this lesson, there are two exercises for review.
Exercise 1 http://www.englishwithjennifer.com/adverb.phrases1.htm
Exercise 2 http://www.englishwithjennifer.com/adverb.phrases2.htm
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