Nominal vs Adverbial clauses

Comparison between Nominal and Adverbial clauses

Differences

Nominal clauses

Adverbial clauses

Embedded

Subordinate(Except in SVA and SVOA patterns)

Subject, object, Cs, Co,…

Adjunct, Disjunct, Conjunct

Introduced by a complementizer

That

Zero-that

Wh-word

Whether/if

 

 

Similarities

1-      Dependent

2-      They can be finite, non-finite, or verbless

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