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S-1b Clauses

Underline the SUBORDINATE CLAUSES and circle the SUBORDINATING WORDS in each of the

following sentences. Answers to even-numbered items can be found at the back of the book.

Some authors use pseudonyms, or pen names, to protect their reputation when they switch to a

different kind of writing.

EXAMPLE

1. For example, when the mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson published Alice’s

Adventures in Wonderland, he used the name Lewis Carroll.

2. In the past, some authors used pseudonyms because they couldn’t get published under their

real names.

3. Three such authors were the sisters Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë, who were originally

published under the names Acton, Currer, and Ellis Bell.

4. Mary Ann Evans opted for the male pseudonym George Eliot, which appeared on her novels

such as Middlemarch and Silas Marner.

5. So that he could have credibility as a writer of books for girls, L. Frank Baum, the male

author of the Oz books, took a female pseudonym, Edith Van Dyne.

6. Other authors, like some actors, take pseudonyms simply to have a name that is catchy or

easy to spell or pronounce.

7. That was the motivation for Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad, whose original names

were Ford Herman Hueffer and Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski.

8. Yet another reason to assume a pseudonym is to disguise the fact that the author is actually

two people.

9. When cousins Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay decided to collaborate on detective

novels, they took the name Ellery Queen.

10. Two name changers who won the Nobel Prize for Literature are the poet Pablo Neruda

(Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto) and the novelist Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford).

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