adverb clauses function as adverbs and answer such questions as : when, where, why, under what conditions. They modify verbs, adverb, and adjectives. They also have to begin with a subordinating conjunction as well as contain a subject and a predicate. Mrs. Sanchez -- subject will help -- verb if you ask-- adverb clause modifying the verb " will help " answering the question : under what condition.
The clause <em>if you ask her </em>is an adverb clause. Since similarly to adverbs, these clauses answers some questions such as where, when, or in this case, under what condition, then this means that they are called adverbial clauses.
C - the Sheriff did not understand the true meaning of what Mrs. Hale
said. There were multiple ways to make what she was making and the men
walking in did not know the intricacies of the process and assumed it
was just what the word phonetically sounded like.