Incomplete Adverb Clause Exercise Copy

1)  Small sailboats can easily capsize _____________ they are not handled carefully.

17) Owls can hunt in total darkness _____________their remarkably keen sense of smell.

2) _____________ they are tropical birds, parrots can live in temperate or even cold climates.

18) _____________ most bamboo blooms every year, there are some species that flower only two or three times a century

3) _____________added to a liquid, antifreeze lowers the freezing temperature of that liquid.

4) _____________advertising is so widespread in the United States, it has  had  an enormous effect on American life.

6) _____________towards shore, its shape is changed by its collision with the shallow sea bottom.

6) _____________are increasingly linked over long distances by electronic communications, but many of them still prefer face-to-face encounters.

7) _____________together in one place, they form a community.

8) _____________managed by an independent governor and board of directors, the Bank of Canada is owned by the Canadian government.

9) _____________pieces of rope are of different thickness, the weaver’s knot can be used to join them.

10) _____________, the seeds of the Kentucky coffee plant are poisonous.

11) Natural silk is still highly prized _____________ similar artificial fabrics.

12) Cattle ranches are found almost _____________ in Utah.

13) _____________through a prism, a beam of white light breaks into all the colors of the rainbow.

14) _____________most people think of freezing as a relatively modern method of food preservation, it is actually one of the oldest.

15) _____________ large bodies of water never freeze solid is that the sheet of ice on the surface protects the water below it from the cold  air.

16) _____________ granted by the Patent Office, it becomes the inventor’s property and he or she can keep it, sell it, or license it to someone else.