Here, do so means 'criticized the regime', but its antecedent-containing clause expresses this content in a different way.

Such clauses may express "in order that", or be used with verbs meaning "want", "expect", etc.

The clause "I was eating" does not express a bounded action, because the verb form does not express either the beginning or the end.

Though the term "restrictive" has become established, the difference in meaning between a so-called restrictive (or integrated) clause and a non-restrictive (or supplementary) clause is not necessarily that the restrictive clause expresses a distinguishing property as in the simple example given above.

The main clause, for its part, expresses a judgement about or a reaction to the fact of the infinitive event's having acceded to existence.

Adverbial clauses express when, why, where, opposition, and conditions, As with all dependent clauses, they cannot stand alone.

The clause expresses Miss Smith's desire to be interred in the St. Agnes graveyard "in a hermetically sealed bronze casket in a mausoleum sufficient to contain my remains alone."

In English, an adverbial clause may express reason, purpose, condition, succession etc., and a relative clause can express many meanings, too.

It is used in single clause sentences and in compound sentences in which the independent clause expresses enquiries.

Subordinate clause with indicative present and main clause with simple future to express a possible condition in either the present or the future, e.g. si fas bondat, anirem al parc ("if you behave, we will go to the park")