NOUN CLAUSE

Noun Clause adalah anak kalimat yang berfungsi sebagai kata benda
Rumus :
Subject + Predicate + ..... (Object)

Yang dapat dijadikan kata penghubung (conjunction) adalah
semua question word , if atau whether.

I want to know WHERE THEY COME FROM.
Ask someone WHAT TIME IT IS.
Do you know WHY THEY HAVEN’T ARRIVED YET?
Can you tell me WHETHER (IF) THEY WILL COME?
I know WHETHER (IF) THEY STUDIED IN A GROUP.

Cara membuat Noun Clause adalah dengan merobah kalimat pertanyaan menjadi kalimat pertanyaan.
Question Word Questions dari kalimat pertanyaan, dijadikan conjunction.
Pada Yes – no Question menggunakan whether atau if.

Where do they com from ? --> Where they come from
What time is it ? --> What time it is
Why haven’t they arrived yet ? --> Why they haven’t arrived yet?
Will they come ? --> Whether (if) they will come?
Did they study in a group? --> Whether (If) they studied in a group

Exercise

1.             The king ordered that the traitor should be put to death.

2.             He said that he would not go.

3.             That he is not interested in the offer is known to us.

4.             He said that he was not feeling well.

5.             I cannot rely on what he says.

6.             I don’t know where he has gone.

7.             He asked whether the servant had polished his shoes.

8.             The news that he is alive has been confirmed.

9.             The belief that the soul is immortal is almost universal.

10.         It is certain that we will have to admit defeat.

Answers

1.              Here the noun clause ‘that the traitor should be put to death’ is that object of the verb ordered.

2.              Here the noun clause ‘that he would not go’ is the object of the verb said.

3.              Here the noun clause ‘that he is not interested in the offer’ is the subject of the verb is.

4.              Here the noun clause ‘that he was not feeling well’ is the object of the verb said.. 

5.              Here the noun clause ‘what he says’ is the object of the preposition on.

6.              Here the noun clause ‘where he has gone’ is the object of the verb know.

7.              Here the noun clause ‘whether the servant had polished his shoes’ is the object of the verb asked.

8.              Here the noun clause ‘that he is alive’ is in apposition to the noun news.

9.              Here the noun clause ‘that the soul is immortal’ is in apposition to the noun belief.

10.          Here the noun clause ‘that we will have to admit defeat’ is in apposition to the pronoun

Sumber   :

·         http://id.answers.yahoo.com/question/

·         http://www.englishpractice.com/grammar/noun-clause-exercise/