Understanding Subordinating Conjunctions

Directions:

Underline the subordinating conjunctions in the sentences below.

Example:

This spaghetti sauce tastes homemade because it is homemade.

1. If orange juice is not stored properly, its flavor and vitamin content can deteriorate.

2. We walked past a place where beavers had cut down aspens in an attempt to dam the Big Thompson River.

3. Shadows are longer in the winter than they are in the summer.

4. When the inner bark of fig trees is moistened and beaten, it is gradually transformed into bark cloth, a smooth paperlike substance.

5. X-ray photographs of flowers reveal layers of plant tissue and petals, but the images are in black and white since there is no color at X-ray wave lengths.

6. Most fire companies order fast-food meals though some still make their own home-style food.

7. Baking soda, a substitute for yeast, produces a spongy texture in baked goods by releasing carbon dioxide while it is being heated.

8. Whenever Kiko walks her dog, the whole neighborhood seems to be asleep.

9. After George played baseball with the fishermen, they felt more comfortable with him.

10. Although an excited woodchuck can breathe as often as 100 times a minute, in hibernation the same animal may breathe as rarely as once every five minutes.

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