An adjunct preposition connector

You will study how to create adverbial clauses.


An adjunct preposition connector

The Republic of Sudan

Imagen: Location of Sudan, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2011), Wikimedia Commons

Instructions: Read the following information about Sudan. Look at the words in bold.

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in north-east Africa, which predominant religion is Islam. It was Christianized in the 6th century and Islamized in the 15th century. As a result of Christianization, the Old Nubian language stands as the oldest recorded Nilo-Saharan language. Sudan is a member of the United Nations, the African Union, the Araba League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Its capital is Khartoum, the political, cultural and comercial centre of the nation. Sudan is a federal presidential representative democratic republic. The Sudanese legal system is based on Islamic law.

Getting started: South Sudan

Instructions: Read the text. Then do the activity suggested.

South Sudan is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse countries on the African continent. Consequently, we can find over 60 major ethnic groups in the country, and despite the presence of many commonalities between them, each one has many unique systems of social structure, livelihoods cultural traditions and a sense of identity. Because of this diversity, people can enjoy the colorful richness of many traditions and a threat to national unity and a collective sense of national identity. Though much like the rest of black African, South Sudan has had to face up to the question of whether cultural diversity is an asset that aides the development of the country or a liability that could shatter the hope of a strong collective nationhood.

A sense of identity

Instructions: Match the two halves of the sentences

a) because each group has an unique social structure and identity.

b) As other african countries.

c) Consequently sudaneses face the challenge of preserve a strong collective nationhood.

d) since there are a lot of ethnic groups.

1. Sudan is ethnically and culturally diverse

2. People can enjoy the colorful richness of many traditions

3. Sudan’s national identity is permeated by diversity

4. We can find over 60 ethnic groups in Sudan

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Let’s learn about An adjunct preposition connector.

Instructions: Read about An adjunct preposition connector.

An adjunct preposition is a preposition which together with its complement (noun, gerund, clause, etc.) forms a prepositional phrase. Because the phrase adds information that is extra and nor required to complete the meaning of the main clause, it is called adjunct. Example:


My best friend and I began walking because we needed exercise.


This connective is also called an adverbial preposition. The structure (connective + complement) is called an adjunct prepositional phrase or an adverbial clause.


It takes form as:

  • Cause – effect: Consequently; as a result: Mary didn’t have options, consequently, she married him.
  • Effect – cause: Because, because of: The little boy had health problems because of poor sanitation in his town.
  • Concession: Though: Obama is a good leader though he occasionally makes mistakes.
  • Purpose/Intent: So that: My family and I stayed out all night so that we could watch the stars.



Instructions: Make logical sentences with the following prompts and because, consequently (X2), or though.

1. Muslim is the main religion in Sudan, / there are also indigenous religions and Christianity. .

2. The indigenous religions are somewhat mysterious to outsiders / the people make no written doctrines of their established beliefs or religious practices. .

3. Islam came to Sudan from Egypt, / it spread rapidly through the country as more and more Arabs moved there. .

4. Almost all Sudanese arabs are Muslims, / many of them forcibly convert their fellow countrymen to their religion. .

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Sudan – traditions and culture. Retrieved July, 2017 from



Instructions: Drag and drop connector from the box into the appropriate place.


In the early 1990's, during the first civil war, there was a shortage of teachers and schools. This was especially true in the southern part of the country. Since the end of the first civil war, the number of schools and educators has been steadily increasing in Sudan. The teachers in the rural areas are often untrained ___________ inadequate teachers, resulting in undereducated children. ___________ there was an adequate number of well-educated students graduating from Sudanese universities, the number of students adept at agricultural economy is still sub-par. ___________ the current estimated literacy rate in Sudan is 30%.

Sudan – Traditions and culture. Retrieved and adapted from


A broad distinction

Instructions: Write an appropriate connector in each blank (although, due to, and, nonetheless).

Demographically there exists a broad distinction between the northern and southern parts of the Sudan. Ethnicity is difficult to trace outright in the modern Sudan generations of intermarriage between various indigenous and immigrant groups. broad groupings are sometimes used – for example, Hamitic, Nilotic, Negroid, and Arab – the definition of these terms with reference to the actual Sudanese is very hard to establish.

, the northern parts of the country appear at first glance to be ‘Arabicized’ in terms of cultural outlook, the inhabitants are usually Arabic speakers, with a number of important exceptions, such as the Nubians in the north and the Beja people in the east. Northern Sudanese are almost wholly Muslim (though again there are exceptions, such as the enclave in the Nuba Mountains where Christianity and traditional African religions are practiced).

In contrast, the south contains the great majority of the 570-plus recorded Sudanese tribes; very few, if any, of these people are Muslim or claim Arab descent, although the south has seen some degree of Arabicization and Islamicization, the process was restrained during the condominium period, when western missionaries efected a limited Christianization of the region as part of the ‘Southern Policy’.

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