Adverbial clause or adjectival clause?

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(When they are used properly), pyrethroids have been found to pose very little risk on human.
What is the grammatical name and function of the expression in the bracket?

tchrist · Answer

In a comment, John Lawler wrote:

It's an adverbial clause, all right. It indicates the circumstances under which the sentence is true. Since it uses when, the time wh-word, you could call it an adverbial temporal clause, but it doesn't really specify time. Probly the best term would be an adverbial when-clause of circumstance.

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