Friday, May 16, 2014


Noun Clause adalah dependent clause yang berfungsi sebagai kata benda (noun). Klausa kata benda ini dapat berfungsi sebagai subyek maupun obyek di dalam suatu clause atau phrase lain. 

Noun clause
Derived From:
Introductory conjunction
Function of Clause
Examples
1.      a statement
Coffee grows in Brazil
that
subject

subject after it

subjective complement
object of verb

That coffee grows in Brazil is well known to all.
It is well known that coffee grows in Brazil.
I know that coffee grows in Brazil

His belief that coffee grows in Brazil is correct.
2.      a question
Expecting yes or no answer
Will he get the money?





Interrogative word question
How will he get the money?



Whether (or not)
Also
If






who
what
which
when
where
why
how
subject

subjective complement

object of verb

object of preposition

subject

subjective complement

object of verb

object of preposition
Whether (or not) he gets the money doesn’t concern me.
The question is whether he will get the money.

Do you know whether (or if) he will get the money?
We were concerned about whether he would get the money.

How he gets the money is his own affair.
The question is how he will get the money.

I don’t know how he will get the money.
We were concerned about how he would get the money.
3.       a request
Write the letter soon
that
object of verb

He suggested that I write the letter soon.
4.      an exclamation
What a pretty girl she is!
what

object of verb

object of preposition
I hadn’t realized what a pretty girl she was.
We talked about what a pretty girl she was.

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