More examples about different clauses:

 Noun Clause: (Continued from class room activity..)

1. What he told us was true. (Subject of the verb 'was')

2. The question is whether she is safe. ( Subject complement)

3. He knows that the train will be late. (Direct object)

4. He gave the leaflet to whoever came to the meeting. (Indirect object)

5. He is concerned about whether she is safe. ( Object of preposition)

6. They made him what he is today. (Object complement)

VIN(Very Important Notes): 

i) A noun clause has a subject and a predicate which has a finite verb.

ii) An independent sentence or clause is converted into a noun clause by the addition of an introductory word like 'that', 'whether', 'what', etc.

iii) Noun clause functions like a noun in a complex sentence.  

HOMEWORK

Considering the above examples of noun clauses, Find the independent clause and dependent clause in each of the sentence.         


   Sentence 1:                                  

   Independent Clause  ...........................

   Dependent clause      ..........................

 Sentence 2:                                  

   Independent Clause  ...........................

   Dependent clause      ..........................


 Sentence 3:                                  

   Independent Clause  ...........................

   Dependent clause      ..........................


 Sentence 4:                                  

   Independent Clause  ...........................

   Dependent clause      ..........................


 Sentence 5:                                  

   Independent Clause  ...........................

   Dependent clause      ..........................

Sentence 6:                                  

   Independent Clause  ...........................

   Dependent clause      ..........................

 

ADJECTIVE CLAUSE: ( Second day)

More Examples (continued from class room activity..) 

A textbook that will satisfy everybody has not yet been written.

Books had to be reproduced by hand in the days when printing did not exist.

My father, who lives in London, writes to me every week.

This is the house where I live.

VIN(Very Important Notes): 
1. It functions like an adjective.
2. A noun or pronoun may be qualified or described by an adjective clause.
3. The noun or pronoun that is qualified is called the antecedent.
4. An adjective clause normally comes immediately after its antecedent by a relative pronoun (who, whom, whose, which, that) or a relative adverb (when, where, why)

ADVERB CLAUSE (Third day)

More examples: (continued from class activity ..)

He arrived at the airport after the plane had departed. (modifying the main verb)

The decision made him more angry than they had expected. (modify adjective)

They found her breathing as if she were about to die. (modify a participle)

They told him to wait until they arrived. (modify an infinitive)

It all happened more suddenly than we had thought. (modify another adverb)

VIN(Very Important Notes): 
1. A subject-predicate word group that may be substituted for an adverb is called as adverbial clause.
2. It has several functions mentioned against each examples above.