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The complex sentence with an adverbial clause of manner

§ 167. Adverbial clauses of manner characterize actions, states, qualities, circumstances. Therefore they may have different reference. The most common conjunctions to introduce them are as and the way.

Adverbial clauses of manner may have different reference:

I. Adverbial clauses of manner may modify the predicate of the main clause by attributing some quality to it.

I’m sorry I talked the way I did at lunch.

She cooks the turkey exactly as my mother did.

He could do it as no one else could have done.

II. They may refer to attributes or predicatives characterizing a state or quality of a person or non-person.

Astonished, as one could be in such circumstances, he didn’t give a sign of it.

He was puzzled by the situation, as one could easily be in his place.

III. They may refer to an adverbial modifier, giving additional information or explanation concerning it.

He said it with contempt, as a grown-up serious man should treat such views.

In the second and the third case the connection between the clauses is rather loose, and the subordinate clause is generally set off by commas.