Snackable Business English - Noun Clauses

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Snackable Business English

Noun Clauses H. E. Colby

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• A noun clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb, but cannot stand alone as a sentence.


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• A noun clause acts like a noun in a sentence.


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Example: What Tyler thinks does not matter.


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Example: What Tyler thinks does not matter. What Tyler thinks is the noun phrase.

It is the subject of the sentence.


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Example: Jenny asked me where was her wallet. Where was her wallet is the noun phrase.

It is the direct object of the sentence.


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Subjects and direct objects must be nouns in a sentence.


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Now you can locate noun phrases in texts and create your own noun phrases in your own sentences.

Give them a try!


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