{"id":527,"date":"2015-02-20T06:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T06:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=527"},"modified":"2015-02-20T06:48:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T06:48:17","slug":"noun-clauses-worksheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/noun-clauses-worksheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Noun clauses worksheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong>noun clause<\/strong> is a kind of subordinate clause. Noun clauses serve the same purpose as nouns. That means they can be the subject or object of verbs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I expect <strong>that I will win the first prize.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here the noun clause \u2018that I will win the first prize\u2019 acts as the object of the verb \u2018expect\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>I expect what? \u2013 <strong>that I will win the first prize<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>That you should say this<\/strong> is rather strange.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here the noun clause \u2018that you should say this\u2019 acts as the subject of the verb \u2018is\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>A noun clause can also act as a complement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The main thing is <strong>that you are safe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here the noun clause \u2018that you are safe\u2019 completes the verb and acts as the subject complement.<\/p>\n<h3>Exercise<\/h3>\n<p>Identify the noun clauses in the following sentences and state what purpose they serve.<\/p>\n<p>1. I often wonder where he is.<\/p>\n<p>2. I hope that he will recognize me.<\/p>\n<p>3. She said that she would not come.<\/p>\n<p>4. Nobody knows where he is.<\/p>\n<p>5. I understand that you are innocent.<\/p>\n<p>6. That she would behave so rudely was rather a shock.<\/p>\n<p>7. I regretted that I was not going to see him again.<\/p>\n<p>8. I admire your belief that you are always right.<\/p>\n<p>9. I insisted that she should see a doctor at once.<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0 I thought that she would be happy.<\/p>\n<h3>Answers<\/h3>\n<p>1. Noun clause &#8211; <strong>where he is;<\/strong> object of the verb \u2018wonder\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>2. Noun clause &#8211; <strong>that he will recognize me<\/strong>; object of the verb \u2018hope\u2019<\/p>\n<p>3. Noun clause &#8211; <strong>that she would not come<\/strong>; object of the verb \u2018said\u2019<\/p>\n<p>4. Noun clause &#8211; <strong>where he is<\/strong>; object of the verb \u2018knows\u2019<\/p>\n<p>5. Noun clause &#8211; <strong>that you are innocent<\/strong>; object of the verb understand<\/p>\n<p>6. Noun clause &#8211; <strong>that she would behave so rudely<\/strong>; subject of the verb was<\/p>\n<p>7. Noun clause &#8211; <strong>that I was not going to see him again<\/strong>; object of the verb \u2018regretted\u2019<\/p>\n<p>8. Noun clause &#8211; <strong>that you are always right<\/strong>; complement of the object \u2018belief\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>9. Noun clause &#8211; <strong>that she should see a doctor at once<\/strong>; object of the verb \u2018insisted\u2019<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0 Noun clause &#8211; <strong>that she would be happy<\/strong>; object of the verb \u2018thought\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A noun clause is a kind of subordinate clause. Noun clauses serve the same purpose as nouns. That means they can be the subject or object of verbs. I expect that I will win&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbse-grammar-worksheets-2","tag-noun-clauses-worksheet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}