NOUN CLAUSE

NOUN CLAUSE

Look at the following sentences. 

• He expected to get a prize. 
• He expected that he would get a prize. 

In the first sentence the group of words ‘to get a prize’ does not have a subject and a predicate. 

This group of word does the work of a noun. 

Whereas in the second sentence, the group of words ‘that he would get a prize’ has both a subject and a predicate. 

Here this group of words does the work of a noun. This is a clause. 

This clause is the object of the verb EXPECT and so does the work of a noun. 

Since this group of words does the works of both a noun and a clause, it is called NOUN-CLAUSE. 

Definition: 

A Noun-Clause is a group of words which contains a Subject and a Predicate of its own and does the work of a noun. 

Examples: 

• I often wonder how you are getting on with him. 

• He feared that he would fail. 

• They replied that they would come to this town. 

• Do you know who stole the watch? 

• I thought that it would be fine day.

• No one knows who he is.

• I did not know what he would do next.

• How the budget got in is a mystery.

• Pay careful attention to what I am going to say.

• I do not understand how all it happened.

The Noun-Clauses can be replaced with suitable Nouns or with suitable Noun-Phrases.

• No one knows when he will come. (Noun-Clauses)
• No one knows the time of his coming. (Noun-Phrases)

• I heard that he had succeeded. (Noun-Clauses)
• I heard of his success. (Noun-Phrases)

• We will never know why he failed. (Noun-Clauses)
• We will never know the reason for his failure. (Noun-Phrases)

• The law will punish whosoever is guilty. (Noun-Clause)
• The law will punish the guilty. (Noun)

• The police want to know where he is living. (Noun-Clauses)
• The police want to know his residence. (Noun) 

EXERCISES

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1.  Do you know _____________________?

A.  where we will be taking the TOEFL test
B.  where will we be taking the TOEFL test
C.  where we will taking the TOEFL test
D.  which we will be taking the TOEFL test
   Answer   a 

2.  _________________changed his life forever.

A.   That Tomo did
B.   What  did Tomo do
C.   What Tomo did
D.   Who Tomo did
   Answer   c 

3.  I will talk _________________.

A.  about whatever is on your mind
B.  whatever is on your mind
C.  about whenever is on your mind
D.  about whichever is on your mind
   Answer   a 

4.  I don't know ____________________.

A.  when will we go to the football game
B.  whom we will go to the football game
C.  whenever we will go to the football game
D.  when we will go to the football game
   Answer   d 

5.  _{______________________} when the others will arrive?

A.  Do Steve know
B.  Do Steve knows
C.  Does Steve know
D.  Is Steve know
   Answer   c 

6.  Did the student hear ______________________?

A.  who Jim Drake said about open university advising
B.  what Jim Drake said about open university advising
C.  what did Jim Drake say about open university advising
   Answer   b 

7.  After four hours of interrogation, the police officers finally figured out ____________.

A.  who he was behind the Bank of America bank robbery
B.  who was behind Bank of America bank robbery
C.  who was behind the Bank of America bank robbery
D.  whose was behind the Bank of America bank robbery
   Answer   c 

8.  ________________ is hire a tutor who can help them with their math skills.

A.   What they do
B.   What  should they do
C.   Whatever they should do
D.   What they should do
   Answer   d 

9.  Do you know ________________?

A.  who's house that is
B.  whose house is that
C.  whose house that is
D.  whose house is
   Answer   c 

10.  ______________is unimportant to her peers.

A.  If she passes
B.  Whether does she pass or not
C.  Whether she pass or not
D.  Whether she passes or not
   Answer   d 

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