how to recognise noun clause adjective clause adverb clause in easy manner
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to identity noun clause always ask what to the main clause
How can one identify noun clause, adjective clause and adverb clause in any complex sentence?
These three kinds of Clauses are usually found in a Complex Sentence or a Double Sentence.
A clause in which a Noun or pronoun plays an importance role is called a Noun Clause. For this purpose you have to identify the elements of A PARTS OF SPEECH as to what it plays.
And the second clue is that : The following three kinds of connectives may help to identify the Noun Clause.
1. When a Noun Clause is a direct question, no Connective is there.
Ex: He said, “ I do not know that man.”
Note: In the above clause , ‘I’ is important. It is a pronoun. There is no pronoun clause in English , it is a Noun clause only.
2. When the Noun Clause contains statement ,it is introduced by the Conjunction THAT and BUT THAT .
Ex: I know that she will succeed.
I have no doubt but that she will succeed.
He said (that ) he would go immediately.
Note: A sentence consisting of the actual words of a speaker may be the Subject or Object to a Verb, and must therefore be regarded as a Noun Clause.
“ I have no money with me, ” was his only reply.
An Adjective Clauses qualifies a Noun or Pronoun in the Main Clause . An Adjective Clause is introduced by a Relative Pronoun or a Relative Adverb.
Important Note: The nature of English language frequently allows the Relative Pronoun or the Relative Adverb to be omitted when it is in the Objective Case , but not otherwise ; as,
Ex: The house I left (=which I left ) was a good one.
Where is the watch ( which ) your father gave you ?
This is the girl ( whom) I know well.
That is the room ( which ) I slept.
Also note:-
On the day ( when ) you are married the plot will be in your name.
The reason ( why ) I have returned it is that I have left my purse.
And sometimes , however, a Relative Pronoun is said to introduce a Co-ordinate Clause.
Sujatha gave me a message , which(= and it ) is this.
He released the kite , which (and it ) at once flew away.
Sometimes an Adjective Clause is introduced by BUT , where it is equivalent to a Relative Pronoun followed by NOT; as ,
Ex: There are few of us but love and honour him.
( That is, who do not love and honour him . )
As, is used as a Relative Pronoun in such expressions as, such as,the same as:-
Ex: It was such a day as I have rarely seen a heavy rain in Ranikhet.
You are the same person as I saw last week.
It was such a site as I had never seen before.
Sometimes ‘than’ is used as a preposition before the Relative Pronoun in the Adjective Clause : as ,
Ex: At last they came to a spot than which their eyes had seldom seen a lovelier.
Still doubt or confusion may persist, here is one more hint.
I know who did it. ( Noun Clause )
Manjunath who did it is here. ( Adjective Clause )
I know where he was born. ( Noun Clause )
The place where he was born is known tome. ( Adjective Clause )
I know why he went there. ( Noun Clause )
I know the reason why he went there. ( Adjective Clause )
He asked how he did it. ( Noun Clause )
The way how he did it is known to everyone. ( Adjective Clause )
How to know an Adjective Clause : The words who, why, when ,where , how etc., introduce both Noun and Adjective Clauses. They introduce a Noun Clause when they are Interrogatives , introducing dependent questions , but introduce Adjective Clauses when they are Relatives i.e. when they refer to an antecedent Noun, expressed or understood.
The Adverb Clause: An Adverb Clause does the work of an Adverb in a Complex Sentence.
There are Adverb Clauses of ---
1. Time 2.Place 3. Cause or Reason 4. Purpose 5. Result or Consequence 6.Concession or supposition 7. Condition 8. Comparison.
How to know an Adverb Clauses.
Sometimes it so happens that such words as why, how, where , when,introduce Adjective Clauses, Adverb Clause , and Adverb Clause . In order to distinguish one kind of clause from another, we should note what work it does in the sentence.
1. I know the place where he was born. (Adjective Clause)
2. Where you go, I will follow. ( Adverb Clause)
3. I know where he was born. ( Noun Clause)