Problem
Identify each subordinate clause. Write the clause beneath the sentence. If the sentence contains more than one subordinate clause, use a separate line for each clause.
• Prose has had a very low place in the literature of the world until within a century; all that was worth saying was said in poetry, which the rhetoricians were forced to leave severely alone, or in oratory, from which all their rules were derived.
• Since written prose language became a universal possession through the printing press and the newspaper, we have been too busy to invent a new rhetoric.
• By way of preface, we may say that the mastery of any language is almost the task of a lifetime: a few easy lessons will have no effect.