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He told me to come to where he was.
364. Noun clauses may also be used as the subject of a sentence. As for example:
That he is innocent is admitted by all.
That he was guilty has been proven.
Why he should do this is very strange.
How we are to live is the great problem.
In all of these sentences, the noun clause is used as the subject of the verb. You will note that most frequently the noun clause used as subject of the verb is introduced by the subordinate conjunction that. But quite often we write these sentences in a somewhat different way. For example:
It is admitted by all that he is innocent.
It has been proven that he was guilty.
You will notice in these sentences we have expressed practically the same thought as in the sentences where the noun clause was used as the subject of the verb.
But now we have this little pronoun it used as the subject, instead of the clause, which is the real subject of the sentence. It is simply used as the introductory word in the sentence. The noun clause is in reality the subject of the sentence.
365. Noun clauses may also be used as the predicate complement with a copulative verb. For example:
The general opinion is that he is innocent.
The problem is how we may accomplish this quickly.
The question was why any one should believe such statements.
In all of these sentences the noun clause is used as the complement of the incomplete verbs is and was, to complete the meaning, just as we use a noun as the predicate complement of a copulative verb in such sentences as, Socialism is a science.War is murder.
366. A noun clause may also be used in apposition to a noun to explain its meaning. Apposition means to place alongside of. Note in the following sentences:
The fact, that such a law had been passed, alters the situation.
His motion, that the matter should be laid on the table, was adopted.
In the first sentence, the clause, that such a law had been passed, is placed beside the noun fact and explains what that fact is. The clause, that the matter should be laid on the table, is in apposition to and explains the noun motion.
These noun clauses are used in apposition.
Exercise 3
Complete the following sentences by inserting the appropriate conjunctions and pronouns in the blank spaces:
1. Can you tell......Germany has a million fighting men?
2. Would you be pleased......the United States should intervene in Mexico?
3. The Mexican revolution will continue......the people possess the land.
4. No one may vote in the convention......he has credentials.
5. ......Debs was in Woodstock jail, he became in Socialist.
6. ......the treaty was signed, hostilities ceased.
7. We shall win......we have the courage.
8. ......we have lost this battle we shall not cease to struggle.
9. All are enslaved......one is enslaved.
10. Humanity will be free......labor is free.
11. Let us do our duty......we understand it.
12. Man will never reach his best......he walks side by side with woman.
13. We must struggle......we would be free.
14. ......we shout for peace, we support war.
15. All our sympathies should be with the man......toils,......we know......labor is the foundation of all.
16. ......all have the right to think and to express their thoughts every brain will give to all the best......it has.
17. ......man develops he places greater value upon his own rights.
18. ......man values his own rights he begins to value the rights of others.
19. ......all men give to all others the rights......they claim for themselves this world will be civilized.
Exercise 4
Note all the co-ordinate and subordinate conjunctions in the following verses from "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Underscore the subordinate clauses. Are they adverb or noun clauses? Do the co-ordinate conjunctions connect words, phrases or clauses?
I know not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in gaol
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.
But this I know, that every Law
That men have made for Man,
Since first Man took his brother's life,
And the sad world began,
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