DEFINISION
Noun Clause is a clause that is used as a noun or serve as a
substitute noun (noun). Noun Clause Besides this, there are actually more like
an adverb clause Adjective Clause and Clause. To explore this explanation Noun
Clause, please note the following explanations:
According to the type of original sentences, noun clause can be
classified into four types, namely:
1. Statement (statement)
2. Question (question)
3. Request (request)
4. Exclamation (calls).
Explanation:
1. Statement
a. Conjunction used is: "that"
b. The function of this clause are as follows:
1) Subject Sentences
• Kangaroo lives in Australia (statement)
• That Kangaroo lives is Australia is well known to all (Noun
Clause)
2) Subject sentence after "It"
• It is well known to all that lives in Australia Kangaroo
3) Attractions Complementary
• My conclusion is that Kangaroo lives in Australia
4) Attractions Verbs
• All people understand well that Kangaroo lives in Australia
5) Apositif
• Kangaroo lives My conclusion is that Australia is correct.
2. Question
A. Yes / No Question
a. Conjunction used is: "Whether (or not / or if)"
b. The function of this clause are as follows:
1) Subject Sentences
• Can she drive the car? (Question)
• Whether she can drive the car does not concern me. (Noun Clause)
= Whether or not she can drive the car does not concern me. (Noun
Clause)
= Whether she can drive the car or not does not concern me. (Noun
Clause)
= Whether or if she can drive the car does not concern me. (Noun
Clause)
2) Complementary attractions
• My question is Whether she can drive the car.
3) Attractions Verbs
• I really wonder Whether she can drive the car (or not).
4) Attractions Words Home
• We Discussed about Whether she can drive the car.
B. Wh-Question
a. Conjunction used is: "Tanya itself"
b. The function of this clause are as follows:
1) Subject Sentences
• What is he doing? (Question)
• What she is doing does not concern me. (Noun Clause)
2) Complementary attractions
• My question is what she is doing.
3) Attractions Verbs
• I really wonder what she is doing.
4) Attractions Words Home
• We Discussed about what she is doing.
Note:
Position back to normal, not like the position of a normal
question.
3. Request
a. Conjunction used is: "that"
b. The function of this clause are as follows:
1) The object of Verbs
• Read the book! (Request)
• He suggested that I read the book. (Noun Clause)
Note:
The exclamation point is missing.
4. Exclamation
a. Conjunction used is: "Tanya used the phrase itself"
b. The function of this clause are as follows:
1) The object of Verbs
• What a pretty girl she is? (Exclamation)
• I never Realize what a pretty girl she is. (Noun Clause)
2) Attraction Words Home
• We are talking about what a pretty girl she is.
Additional Notes:
• Noun clause with "that" is used as the subject of a
sentence only with certain verbs. And verbs (verb) what is important is linking
verb, especially BE.
• Noun clause with "that" often the object of the verb
(the verb), some of these verbs usually have that show human subjects. These
words are particularly verbs used in Indirect Speech verb stating Berta mental
activity.
Indirect Verbs Sentence
Admit, agree, allege, announce, argue, assert, assure, declare,
aver, boast, claim, complain, confess, convince, deny, disagree, explain,
foretell, hint, inform, insist, maintain, notify, persuade, pray, predict,
proclaim, promise, relate, remark, Remind, report, say, state, swear, teach,
tell, threaten, warn
Verbs of Mental Activity
Ascertain, Assume, believe, calculate, care (for negative or
interrogative sentences), conceive, conclude, consider, convince, decide,
discover, doubt, dream, expect, fancy, feel, find out, forget, grant, guess,
hear, hold (opinion), hope, imagine, indicate, know, judge, learn, mean, mind
(for negative or interrogative sentences), notice, perceive, presume, pretend,
PROVE, question, Realize, recall, reckon, Recollect, reflect, regret, rejoice,
remember, reveal, see, show, suppose, surmise, think, trust, understand, wish
Example:
1. Alex thinks that Mary is ill.
2. Bob told me that he had finished breakfast.
3. Henry says that Jack is very busy.
4. He insists that there is a mistake.
5. He complained to his friend that his wife could not cook.
• In an informal conversation (informal) "that" are
omitted from the objects clause if it means (meaning) is clearly understandable
in the absence of "that".
Example:
1. I am sorry (that) I could not meet you at the station.
2. He says (that) they plan to come to the dance.
3. We thought (that) you had already left for abroad.
4. The reason we returned so early is, (that) one of the children
got sick.
• Noun Clause of the question (question) located after the verb
that requires two objects may serve as one or both of the objects of the verb.
Example:
1. Give the man (Indirect Object) what is in this envelope (Direct
Object)
2. Give what is in the envelope to the man.
• Noun clause of the query may be preceded by the words that serve as
wondering: pronouns, adjectives, or Adverbs. The words used are: Pronoun = who
(ever), what (ever (, which. (Ever), Adjective = Whose, what (ever), which
(ever), adverb = how (ever), when (ever) , where (ever), why.
Example:
1. We do not know who will be coming from the employment agency.
(Who is the subject of the will be coming)
2. We do not know Whom the employment agency will send. (Whom is
the object of the will send)
3. We will ask whoever comes from the employment agency. (Whoever
is the subject comes)
4. We will ask whomever sends the employment agency. (Whomever is
the object of sends)
• In Noun Clause of the question, the subject and the verb has a
common layout, which is after the introductory word.
• Noun clause of the query begins with a that-clause is most often
the object of the verb which states the request, suggestion, or desire, and so
on.
Example:
1. He is requesting that a company car be placed at his disposal.
2. The doctor recommended that he take a vacation.
3. It was suggested that she leave immediately.
4. It was proposed that the meeting be adjourned.
• Sometimes "that" which is the beginning of the word can
be replaced with a composition clause infinitive after verbs that show such a
request advise, ask, beg, command, desire, forbid, order, request, require,
argue.
• The subject of the that-clause is often in the passive form of
the verbs of requesting the composition of anticipatory it.
