Learn English – an adverbial clause of this sentence

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I am learning English grammar. And I was doing exercises of replacing adverbial phrase with adverbial clause. And I am unable to replace adverbial phrase with adverbial clause in the following sentence:

"with a view to early retirement he saved his money."

First of all please explain what this sentence is saying. And what can be adverbial clause of this sentence.?

Thanks

Best Answer

With a view to is an adverbial phrase and means:

a. with the aim or intention of;

b with the expectation or hope of.

Your adverbial (prepositional) phrase

With a view to early retirement he saved his money.

can be transformed into an adverbial clause in this way:

With a view to retire early he saved his money.

On the above example the subject is omitted: with a view ... [that he] retire early.

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