AS ADVERBS

Participial clauses as adverbial clauses

BBC Learning English (2)

remarks that

Participial clauses often express condition, reason, cause, result or time in a similar way to full adverbial clauses

Swan (p.406-7 ) states that

Participle clauses can also be used in similar ways to full adverbial clauses, expressing condition, reason, time relations, result etc...Adverbial participle clauses are usually rather formal.

whilst Hasselgard (4) offers up as an example of an “adverbial non-finite clause” the participial

Reflecting on the past three years, she wondered whether she had made the right choices.

and Hill 5) classifies categorically as “adverbial” the participle of

Crying, the child ran from the room.