Noun Clause

NOUN CLAUSE

Getting started

I like the Harry Potter Series. I think that they’re brilliantly written and are great books for children and adults. My brother told me that he enjoyed reading them very much.

The first movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, didn’t fail to amize me. To my surprise, what I was seeing matched a lot of the things that I had read in the book, and that made the movie even better.

After seeing the movie, I want to know who the cats is. I think they are amazing and unbelievable considering their age. I believe we’ll see a lot out of them in the future.

o   Function and Form

	As a subject	As an object
Noun Phrase	The Harry Potter books are all about imagination.	I loved the first movie
Noun Clause	What I saw mathed with the things in the book.	I think (that) they’re brilliantly written

A noun clause is used :

^  After verbs of mental state, such as believe, feel, know, pretend, show, complain, find out, learn, realize, suppose, decide, forget, regret, think, dream, hope, remember, think, dream, understand, and expect.

I believe that all people are good.

^ To include a question in a statement.

I don’t know what he does.

^ To report what someone has said or asked.

He said that he would take a long leave the following month. He asked me what he should take to Surabaya.

o   Begin with That

Statement	Noun Clause
He is a good manager.	o   I think that he is a good manager. o   I don’t think that he is a good manager	o   The world that, when it introduce a noun clause, has no meaning in it self. It simply marks the beginning of the clause. o   The word that can be omitted
The world is round.	o   We know that the world is round. o   We are not sure that the world is round.
She doesn’t understand spoken English.	o   That she doesn’t understand spoken English is obvious o   It is obvious that she doesn’t understand spoken English	o   The word that is not omitted when it introduce a noun clause used as the subject of a sentence. o   More commonly, the word it functions as the subject, and the noun clause is placed at the end of a sentence.
The world is round.	o   That the world is round is a fact o   It is a fact that the world is round

o    

Begin with whether or if

When a yes/no question is changed to a noun clause, whether or if is used to introduce the clause. Whether is more acceptable in formal English, but if is quite commonly used, especially in speaking.

Yes/No Question	Noun Clause
Will she be accepted?	o   I don’t know whether/if she will be accepted	o   Do not use question word order in a noun clause. In a noun clause, the subject goes before the verb.
Has he come yet?	o   I want to know whether/if he has come yet
Does he need help?	o   I wonder whether/if he needs helps	o   Does did, and do are used in question but not in clause

^ Notice the alternative patterns when or not is used.

I wonder if she will be accepted or not. I wonder whether she will be accepted or not. I wonder whether or not she will be accepted.

^ Notice that the noun clause is in the subject position.

Whether she will be accepted or not is not important to my department.

Ø  Begin with wh words

Question	Noun clause
o   Where does she live? o   What did he say?	o   I don’t know where she lives. o   I couldn’t hear what he said	The word order after the wh word is like in a statement.
o   Who lives there? o   What happened?	o   I don’t know who lives there. o   Please tell me what happened	The word order is same in both the question and the noun clause because who and what are the subject in both.
o   Who is she? o   Whose house is that?	o   I don’t know who lives there o   Please tell me what happened	The subject of the question is placed in front of the verb be in the noun clause
o   What should they do?	o   What they should do is abvious	A noun clause subject takes a singular verb (e.g. is).

By created :

Nasywa Zachra Albanna