📌 Noun Clauses📌
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✒️Table of Contents ✒️
📍Noun Clause
📍What Is a Noun Clause?
📍Components of a Noun Clause
📍Functions of Noun Clauses
📍👉As a Subject
📍👉As an Object
✒️What Is a Noun Clause❓
✍️A noun clause refers to a clause that serves the same purpose as a noun and is usually dependent. Just like nouns do, a noun clause names people, things, places, and ideas. Noun clauses typically have a verb and a subject, but they cannot express a complete thought in a sentence; hence they are known as dependent clauses. Since noun clauses cannot form complete sentences, they are usually used together with an independent clause. This article gives in-depth insights on noun clauses and the examples of noun clauses.
🤔How to Identify a Noun Clause🤔
✍️Noun clauses have words like; whatever, whichever, whoever, whomever, how, what, when which, whether, whom, who, why at the beginning. The simplest way to identify a noun clause is thus to check for such words. However, it does not mean that just because these words are present in a sentence, they indicate the presence of a noun clause. At times, they might represent an adjective clause.
👉For example, 🖊The village where I live is a good place for farming.
✒️In this sentence, the clause “where I live” is an adjective clause and not a noun clause because it describes the noun “village.”
📍Components of a Noun Clause📍
✍️The two key components are a subject and a verb.
📍A Subject
✍️A subject usually describes what the sentence or clause is about.
🖊What Joan loves most about watching movies is how the actors express their feelings with different body parts.
✒️The noun clause in the sentence is 👉“what Joan loves most,” and it talks about the subject “Joan.”
👉There is also another noun clause, “how the actors express,” which is about the actors. Actors are thus the subject in the clause.
📍A Verb
✍️A verb is a doing/ action word.
🖊You can wear whichever dinner dress you want.
The noun clause in this sentence is 👉“whichever dinner dress you,” whereas the words “can wear” and “want” are verbs.
📍Functions of Noun Clauses📍
✍️A noun clause can either be a subject or an object. Objects comprise direct objects, indirect objects, or prepositional objects.
📍👉As a Subject
🖊Whatever Brenda cooked made me happy.
The noun clause in the sentence is “whatever Brenda cooked,” and it functions as the subject in the sentence. The clause has a subject “whatever” and a verb “cooked.”
🖊How the girl wore was indecent.
👉The noun clause here is “how the girl wore,” and it has the verb “wore” and the subject “the girl”
👉 The clause acts as a subject since it talks about how the girls wore.
📍👉As an Object
✍️The various types of objects include; direct objects, indirect objects, and prepositional objects.
📍👉A Direct Object
✒️A direct object directly receives a verb action.
🖊Do you understand what the homework entails?
👉The noun clause is “What the homework entails” and comprises of the subject “homework” and the verb “entail.”
🖊My daughter will wear whichever dress I hand to her.
👉The noun clause is “whichever dress I hand to her,” It is the direct recipient of the verb action “wear.”
📍👉An Indirect Object
✍️An indirect object identifies the individual to whom/ for whom a verb action is done.
🖊Always honor whichever person you serve for an excellent service.
👉The noun clause is “whoever customer you serve” it contains a subject “whoever” and a verb “serve.”
🖊Ensure you send whoever taught you a graduation-invitation card.
👉“Whoever taught you” is the noun clause that acts as an indirect object, and it comprises of a subject “whoever” and a verb “taught.”
📍👉As a Prepositional Object
✍️A prepositional object usually follows a noun clause.
🖊I want to work with whoever is excellent in the skill.
👉The noun clause is “whoever is excellent in the skill,” whereas “with” is the preposition.
🖊It is vital to research about why certain things exist.
👉The noun clause is” why certain things exist” and “about” is the preposition.
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✒️Table of Contents ✒️
📍Noun Clause
📍What Is a Noun Clause?
📍Components of a Noun Clause
📍Functions of Noun Clauses
📍👉As a Subject
📍👉As an Object
✒️What Is a Noun Clause❓
✍️A noun clause refers to a clause that serves the same purpose as a noun and is usually dependent. Just like nouns do, a noun clause names people, things, places, and ideas. Noun clauses typically have a verb and a subject, but they cannot express a complete thought in a sentence; hence they are known as dependent clauses. Since noun clauses cannot form complete sentences, they are usually used together with an independent clause. This article gives in-depth insights on noun clauses and the examples of noun clauses.
🤔How to Identify a Noun Clause🤔
✍️Noun clauses have words like; whatever, whichever, whoever, whomever, how, what, when which, whether, whom, who, why at the beginning. The simplest way to identify a noun clause is thus to check for such words. However, it does not mean that just because these words are present in a sentence, they indicate the presence of a noun clause. At times, they might represent an adjective clause.
👉For example, 🖊The village where I live is a good place for farming.
✒️In this sentence, the clause “where I live” is an adjective clause and not a noun clause because it describes the noun “village.”
📍Components of a Noun Clause📍
✍️The two key components are a subject and a verb.
📍A Subject
✍️A subject usually describes what the sentence or clause is about.
🖊What Joan loves most about watching movies is how the actors express their feelings with different body parts.
✒️The noun clause in the sentence is 👉“what Joan loves most,” and it talks about the subject “Joan.”
👉There is also another noun clause, “how the actors express,” which is about the actors. Actors are thus the subject in the clause.
📍A Verb
✍️A verb is a doing/ action word.
🖊You can wear whichever dinner dress you want.
The noun clause in this sentence is 👉“whichever dinner dress you,” whereas the words “can wear” and “want” are verbs.
📍Functions of Noun Clauses📍
✍️A noun clause can either be a subject or an object. Objects comprise direct objects, indirect objects, or prepositional objects.
📍👉As a Subject
🖊Whatever Brenda cooked made me happy.
The noun clause in the sentence is “whatever Brenda cooked,” and it functions as the subject in the sentence. The clause has a subject “whatever” and a verb “cooked.”
🖊How the girl wore was indecent.
👉The noun clause here is “how the girl wore,” and it has the verb “wore” and the subject “the girl”
👉 The clause acts as a subject since it talks about how the girls wore.
📍👉As an Object
✍️The various types of objects include; direct objects, indirect objects, and prepositional objects.
📍👉A Direct Object
✒️A direct object directly receives a verb action.
🖊Do you understand what the homework entails?
👉The noun clause is “What the homework entails” and comprises of the subject “homework” and the verb “entail.”
🖊My daughter will wear whichever dress I hand to her.
👉The noun clause is “whichever dress I hand to her,” It is the direct recipient of the verb action “wear.”
📍👉An Indirect Object
✍️An indirect object identifies the individual to whom/ for whom a verb action is done.
🖊Always honor whichever person you serve for an excellent service.
👉The noun clause is “whoever customer you serve” it contains a subject “whoever” and a verb “serve.”
🖊Ensure you send whoever taught you a graduation-invitation card.
👉“Whoever taught you” is the noun clause that acts as an indirect object, and it comprises of a subject “whoever” and a verb “taught.”
📍👉As a Prepositional Object
✍️A prepositional object usually follows a noun clause.
🖊I want to work with whoever is excellent in the skill.
👉The noun clause is “whoever is excellent in the skill,” whereas “with” is the preposition.
🖊It is vital to research about why certain things exist.
👉The noun clause is” why certain things exist” and “about” is the preposition.
✒️A noun clause serves a similar role as a noun. It comprises of a verb and a subject. To quickly identify a noun clause in a sentence, one can look for words like whoever, why, whatever, whichever, what, how, and many more. A noun clause can either act as a subject or an object. Objects include; prepositional objects, indirect objects, and direct objects.
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