Notes

1)Do you love your garden, but find the upkeep a strain?
interrogative clause : do you love your garden, but find the upkeep a strain?

2)Here’s how you can achieve an outdoor space that’s
easy to care for
relative clause : Here’s how you can achieve an outdoor space that’s
easy to care for

3)Imagine a garden where the grass is always greener, and relaxation reigns supreme where the grass is always greener, and relaxation reigns supreme
imperative sentence : Imagine a garden where the grass is always greener, and relaxation reigns supreme.

where the grass is always greener, and relaxation reigns supreme.
relative clause : where the grass is always greener, and relaxation reigns supreme

4)A place where your new gardener is busy bustling round the garden, the gentle hum of mowing barely audible as you admire your verdant vista.
relative clause : A place where your new gardener is busy bustling round the garden,

information clause : the gentle hum of mowing barely audible as you admire your verdant vista.

5)You don’t need to feel guilty about sipping your sundowner and not offering to help – because that gardener is called Miimo, and it’s a robot
information sentence : You don’t need to feel guilty about sipping your sundowner and not offering to help

relative clause : because that gardener is called Miimo, and it’s a robot

6)Put like that, it may sound like science fiction but, in fact,robotic lawnmowers are now established tools in helping you love and live with your garden for longer

comparision sentence : Put like that, it may sound like science fiction

information sentence : but, in fact,robotic lawnmowers are now established tools in helping you love and live with your garden for longer

7)Before Edwin Budding’s invention of the lawnmower in 1830, grass cutting was a labour-intensive pursuit using scythes, shears or grazing animals
subordinate sentence(time) : Before Edwin Budding’s invention of the lawnmower in 1830,

information clause: grass cutting was a labour-intensive pursuit using scythes, shears or grazing animals

8)As suburbs began to emerge in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the residential lawn became a symbol of status and prestige , as homeowners sought to emulate the manicured lawns of public parks and golf courses, driving the demand for smaller lawnmowers for domestic use.

subordinate sentence (time) : As suburbs began to emerge in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the residential lawn became a symbol of status and prestige

information clause : as homeowners sought to emulate the manicured lawns of public parks and golf courses, driving the demand for smaller lawnmowers for domestic use.

9)That demand for a lush, lawn landscape, mown weekly or fortnightly between March and October,sees Brits spending hours– or, by some estimates, days –keeping their lawn neat and in good condition.

information sentence : That demand for a lush, lawn landscape, mown weekly or fortnightly between March and October

subordinate sentence ( result) : sees Brits spending hours

subordinate sentence (information) : – or, by some estimates, days –

reason sentences : keeping their lawn neat and in good condition.

10)But while the exercise afforded by such exertions can be helpful for some,.it’s not possible for everybody
comparision sentence : But while the exercise afforded by such exertions can be helpful for some

relative sentence : t’s not possible for everybody

11)Pam Whittle, former president of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society,finds grass cutting her least preferred job in retirement

subordinate sentence (information) : Pam Whittle, former president of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society

information sentence : finds grass cutting her least preferred job in retirement

12) “There’s only the two of us now and the whole site is an acre.
information sentence : There’s only the two of us now and the whole site is an acre.

13) I hate cutting the grass, my husband cuts it,but he doesn’t like it either.
information clause : I hate cutting the grass, my husband cuts it

subordinate sentence (information) : but he doesn’t like it either.

14)I’m not a spring chicken any more,but I don’t want to move,” she says.
information sentence : I’m not a spring chicken any more

contrast clause : but I don’t want to move,” she says.