The Toronto fans hope that the Blue Jays will win again. This noun clause is the subject of the compound verb will have to pay and answers the question who will have to pay? Whoever broke the vase will have to pay for it.

This noun clause is the object of the preposition about and answers the question about what? The question where are they going? with a slight change in word order becomes a noun clause and acts as the subject of the verb is.

Noun clause Where they are going is unknown.

Noun clauses may function as indirect questions: Noun Their destination is unknown. In the second example, the entire clause that Latin . . . In the first example, the noun Latin acts as the direct object of the verb know. Noun clause I know that Latin is no longer spoken as a native language. A noun clause may act as the subject or object of a verb, or as the object of a preposition, answering the questions who(m)? or what? Consider the following examples: Noun I know Latin. Noun clausesĪ noun clause takes the place of a noun in another clause or phrase. Adverb clause The committee will meet when the Prime Minister is in Ottawa.ĭependent clauses may function as adverbs as well as nouns and adjectives. Note that this clause can replace the adverb tomorrow in the following example: Adverb The committee will meet tomorrow. As this dependent clause answers the question when? just like an adverb does, it is called a dependent adverb clause (or simply an adverb clause as adverb clauses are always dependent clauses). In this case, the clause cannot stand alone as a sentence since the conjunction when suggests that the clause is providing an explanation for something. Consider the same clause preceded by the subordinating conjunction when: Dependent clause when the Prime Minister is in Ottawa Some clauses, however, cannot stand alone as sentences: in this case, they are dependent clauses or subordinate clauses. If a clause can stand alone as a sentence, it is an independent clause, as in the following example: Independent clause the Prime Minister is in Ottawa Using Clauses as Nouns, Adjectives and Adverbs

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