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This book concerns itself with that part of grammar and usage which bears on the various kinds of clauses in English sentences.A general book on grammar does touch on clauses
，too ，but ，being general，it can hardly be expected to deal with them in such detail as to cover every usage concerning each type of clause.The present work is a special treatise which presents as comprehensively as possible both the grammar and the usage peculiar to clauses of given types.Now，apart from the main clause， a clause may appear in an English sentence in the form of a coordinate clause，a relative clause， a noun clause， an adverbial clause， a comment clause，or a focal clause.Each form or type has its own peculiarities， which are gone into in detail in this book.Besides，a special section is devoted to the discussion of coordination and subordination，particularly the latter， which is an important art to master in the successful use of clauses in a sentence.
The book is intended for those students of English who，having already had a general grammatical knowledge，wish to know more about the composite sentence (which is composed of clauses)than the information they can gather from a general book on grammar.
Although the book has been compiled by referring to works of well-known authors，the compiler has left the beaten track in approaching quite a number of the questions. And， if a certain phenomenon of grammar or idiom is accounted for other than conventionally，it is because he believes his way of explanation seems to be the more probable interpretation than the conventional one. Errors of judgement are， of course， inevitable.Comments and suggestions will， therefore， be appreciated.
In acknowledgement， the compiler must mention the following original works，from which he has often obtained suggestive ideas and drawn useful materials in compiling the book.
Huang Ziwen
Shanghai，October，1980
，too ，but ，being general，it can hardly be expected to deal with them in such detail as to cover every usage concerning each type of clause.The present work is a special treatise which presents as comprehensively as possible both the grammar and the usage peculiar to clauses of given types.Now，apart from the main clause， a clause may appear in an English sentence in the form of a coordinate clause，a relative clause， a noun clause， an adverbial clause， a comment clause，or a focal clause.Each form or type has its own peculiarities， which are gone into in detail in this book.Besides，a special section is devoted to the discussion of coordination and subordination，particularly the latter， which is an important art to master in the successful use of clauses in a sentence.
The book is intended for those students of English who，having already had a general grammatical knowledge，wish to know more about the composite sentence (which is composed of clauses)than the information they can gather from a general book on grammar.
Although the book has been compiled by referring to works of well-known authors，the compiler has left the beaten track in approaching quite a number of the questions. And， if a certain phenomenon of grammar or idiom is accounted for other than conventionally，it is because he believes his way of explanation seems to be the more probable interpretation than the conventional one. Errors of judgement are， of course， inevitable.Comments and suggestions will， therefore， be appreciated.
In acknowledgement， the compiler must mention the following original works，from which he has often obtained suggestive ideas and drawn useful materials in compiling the book.
Huang Ziwen
Shanghai，October，1980
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