adverbial clauses, and comparative clauses. Is there any good reason indeed for classifying comparative clauses as a special type of clause?” ...

But for these prepositions like "than" and "as" that can take both pronouns ("smarter than me") and comparative clauses as their complements ("smarter than I am") the position today is that normal ...

Free modifiers, on the other hand, are set off by commas most of the time, as the comparative clause "a lizard might lose its tail and yet grow it again someday" finds itself hemmed in by two ...