Noun clauses

Lots of noun clauses start with that, how, or a "wh"-word. A noun clause has a subject and a verb and functions as a noun.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Select the second noun clause.

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

• always say

• what I'm thinking

A clause functioning as a noun could feasibly be replaced with a pronoun.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Select the one with a noun clause in bold:

• Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect

• Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Select the one with a noun clause in bold:

• There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

• The world is my lobster.

Select the noun clause.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to have the bravery to say what other people won't and to behave as my mother would expect.

• I have always tried

• what other people won't

Select the one with a noun clause in bold:

• An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

• Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

A clause functioning as a noun could feasibly be replaced with a pronoun.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Select the one with a noun clause in bold:

• Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Select the one with a noun clause in bold:

• A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

• What I wrote is the truth.