Last Saturday our town held a small science fair in the school hall. Dana built a wind turbine, and her brother Arman showed a water filter. Visitors asked many questions. One man wondered how the filter worked. Arman explained that sand and charcoal remove dirt from the water. 'Look at the clear water!' he said. 'It is amazing, isn't it?' said a woman. Because the judges were impressed, they gave him a special prize. Dana, who had worked on her turbine for a month, won second place. Nobody was disappointed, for everyone had learned something new.
In the sentence 'Because the judges were impressed, they gave him a special prize', the clause 'Because the judges were impressed' is …
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- Can adverbial clause of reason
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The clause answers the question 'Why did they give him a prize?' and is introduced by 'because'. It is a subordinate adverbial clause of reason. It does not show when the action happened, it does not state a condition, and it does not express contrast.