Question

Which sentences contain an adverb clause? 1) Darla set up a studio because she enjoyed painting. 2) As Aaron was having a midnight snack, he heard a loud noise coming from the basement. 3)The entire town was searching for the girl with the red hair. 4) They listened to what he had to say but disagreed with him in the end.

Answer 1

Adverbs refer to the words which modify the verb, adjectives or adverbs, expressing a relation of a cause, time, place and so forth.

Whereas, an adverb clause refers to the group of words which works as an adverb. An adverb clause begins with the subordinating conjunction such as if, although, because and so forth. Lastly, it includes subject and predicate.

In the following options, the sentence which contains adverb clause is 1) Darla set up a studio because she enjoyed painting.

An adverbial clause in the above sentence is 'because she enjoyed painting.'

The above sentence contains a subordinate conjunction 'because' and has a subject 'Darla set up a studio' and predicate 'because she enjoyed painting.'

Answer 2

The answer to your question would be that the sentences that contain an adverb clause are the following ones: "Darla set up a studio because she enjoyed painting" and "As Aaron was having a midnight snack, he heard a loud noise coming from the basement". That is, your answer would be options 1 and 2.

An adverb clause is a group of words that functions as an adverb in a sentence. They are dependent clauses so, as such, they must have a subordinating conjunction to connect them to the rest of the sentence.  In this case, the subordinating conjunctions connecting the dependent clauses to the rest of the sentence are the following ones: As (introducing information about time) and because (introducing the reason why Darla set up a studio).