1 / 10

Noun Clause

Noun Clause. Noun Clause. Noun Clause—a subordinate clause that is used as a noun Can be a subject, complement ( pn , io , do), or object of the preposition. Uses of noun phrase. Subject : That they were angry was obvious to the others. (Who was? That they were angry…was)

aolani
Download Presentation

Noun Clause

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Noun Clause

  2. Noun Clause Noun Clause—a subordinate clause that is used as a noun Can be a subject, complement ( pn, io, do), or object of the preposition

  3. Uses of noun phrase Subject: That they were angry was obvious to the others. (Who was? That they were angry…was) Object of a preposition: Eager to please the speaker, we listened to whatever he said. (to whatever he said = prep phrase)

  4. Complements Predicate Nominative: Three dollars was what Daniel offered for the necklace. ($3 = what Daniel offered) Direct Object: Anthony and Chris remembered who he was. (Remembered what? Who he was) Indirect object: The hostess gives whoever enters a menu. (gives to whom? Whoever enters)

  5. Noun clause …plus The word that introduces a noun clause may be omitted, but is understood. She said [that] the milk was sour.

  6. Write the color of the noun clause 1. Whatever you decide will befine. Yellow—Whateveryoudecide Subject 2. The results are not what we planned. White—what we planned— PN 3. You do not know what happened to the rest of the sandwich. Blue—whathappened to the rest of the sandwich Direct Object

  7. Write the color of the noun clause 4. Levi is looking for whoever owns the red bicycle. White—(for whoeverowns the red bicycle) Prep phraseOP 5. Whoever takes me to the beachismy best friend. Yellow-whoever takes me to the beach Subject

  8. Name the yellow job. S, IO, DO, PN, OP 1. No one could explain whathappened to the turtle. DO (explain what?) 2. Sal sent whoeverasked him for one a postcard from Puerto Rico. IO (sent postcard to whom?) 3. That the refereecalled a foul caused an uproar among the fans. S (what caused an uproar?)

  9. Name the yellow job. S, IO, DO, PN, OP 1. We talked about what wewere going to do for lunch. OP—(about whatwewere going to do for lunch) 2. The ending of the book is not what Iexpected. PN (ending is what?) 3. Whateverhappens at the Super Bowl will be seen by millions of people. S—what will be seen by millions of people?

  10. Subject /do, io, pn/ obj. of prep Wb 129 #6-15 Pg. 452—Review A, #1-10

More Related