2015-09-06
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The subordinate clauses of manner or attendant circumstances in each contrasted language give some qualitative characteristics of the action/state in the matrix clause. They are introduced in English by the conjunction as/as if or by the connective word "the way" having several corresponding conjunctions and correlatives in Ukrainian. The main of these are: мов, немов/немовби, неначе, ніби, нібито, начебто, що, щоб.
The adverbial clauses of manner or attendant circumstances split in English and Ukrainian into two main subgroups:
1) clauses that qualify the predicate of the matrix clause and consequently modify the clause as a whole. A specific feature of Ukrainian equivalents of such and other clauses is an often use of condensed or reduced to a one-member clause structure with an inherent comparative meaning and function, eg:
Mr. Tupman did as he was requested. Треба битися тут і стояти, як нале- (Dickens) жить чесним людям. (Яновський)
Their voices rose and fell as though їхні голоси то лунали, то завмирали,
they were singing together. (Green) ніби вони співали разом.
2) clauses of manner or attendant circumstances that refer to the adverbial modifier of the matrix clause have mostly an inherent comparative meaning which is an isomorphic feature of both contrasted languages. Cf.
He laughed joyfully as though а Він сміявся радісно, так. ніби
weight had been lifted from him. з його пліч зняли важкий тягар.
(Cusack)
Sometimes the Ukrainian equivalents of the clauses of manner may have a one-member structure or rather a condensed form, eg:
It followed inevitably upon the Після праці неминуче, мов/як
work, as the night follows a day. день після ночі, наступало
(London) розслаблення.
There may equally be a two-member clause of manner/attendant circumstances in Ukrainian, though in a transformed structure of the sentence only. Cf. Після праці неминуче, як день наступає після ночі, наступало розслаблення.
