Noun Clause / Modals

What is a Noun Clause?

• A type of dependent sentence that functions as a noun within a sentence

• A type of adverb that modifies a verb, adjective, or other noun

• A type of noun that expresses an action or state of being

• A type of noun punctuation used to separate items in a sentence

A noun clause can be used to:

• Modify the other part of the main sentence

• Add more information about the main sentence

Choose the suitable transformation to noun clause for the following statement:

Lucy's parents are excessively overprotective. They never allow her arrive home late at night

• The advantage of Lucy is daughter of excessively overprotective parents is that they never allow her to arrive home late

• Lucy´s problem of having excessively overprotective parents is that they allow her to arrive home late at night

• The problem of Lucy being daughter of excessively overprotective parents is that they never allow her to arrive home late

• Lucy´s inconvenient of to have excessively overprotective parents is that they allow her to arrive home late at night

Identify the noun clause in the following sentence:

The fact that she won the competition surprised everyone.

• That she won the competition

• The competition surprised everyone

• She won the competition

Choose the correct transformation of the given sentence into a noun clause:

She believes that she can achieve anything.

• Her belief is that she can achieve anything

• She can achieve anything she believes

• She believes in achieving anything

Choose the appropriate:

Luna is so unfaithful. She would always cheat on boyfriends

• The bad thing of being Luna's boyfriend is that she would always cheat on you

• The good thing of Luna being so unfaithful is that she would never cheat on boyfriends

• The advantage of Luna being so unfaithful is that she would never cheat on you

• The inconvenient of being Luna's boyfriend is that she is so unfaithful and always cheated on you

Choose the most appropiate option to complete the sentences:

The most diffcult requiremte of being an international flight attendant is that...

• You have to speak English

• You must be necessarily beautiful

• You need to know how to fly a plane

• You should be fit

The best thing about having Sergio as our teacher is that...

• he is the best teacher ever

• he is awesome at teaching

• he teaches way so good

• all of them

complete:

The worst part of having a job about unplugging the fridge at night, as the case of Keren, is that ...

• You end up exhausted

• You must wait awake untill eleven pm

• You need to be amazingly intelligent to do it.

• you work to much just to get a low salary

Isabella wants to go to the UK, but the problem of moving to England is that...

• Brittish people would laugh at your accent

• you may have difficulties understanding the accent and slangs

• you are not allowed to eat the English breakfast

• people from this would never talk to latins