Unit 16

Noun Clause
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n ‘noun clause’

In a noun clause, the full subject and predicate are retained, but the structure is changed by
the addition of a special introductory word, by a special word order, or both. It may be
classified according to the kinds of sentences from which they are derived – statements,
questions, requests, exclamation.
Noun Clause Introductory Function of Examples
Derived From Conjunction Clause
1. A Subject That coffee grows in Brazil is
statement that well known to all.

Coffee grows Subject after It is well known that coffee

in Brazil it grows in Brazil.

My understanding is that
Subjective coffee grows in Brazil.
compliment
I know that coffee grows in
Object of verb Brazil.

His belief that coffee grows in

appositive Brazil is correct.

2. A question Subject Whether (or not) he gets the

a. Expecting Whether (or money doesn’t concern
yes or no not) also if me.
answer Subjective
complement The question is whether he
Will he get the will get the money.
money ? Object of verb
Do you know whether (or if)
he will get the money.
Object of
preposition We were concerned about
whether he would get the
money.

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b. Interrogative Subject How he gets the money is his
word Who; what; own affair.
question which; when;
where; why; how Subjective The question is how he will
How will he get complement get the money.
the money ?
Object of verb We were concerned about how
he will get the money.

Object of We were concerned about how

preposition he would get the money.

Noun Clause Introductory Function of Examples

Derived From Conjunction Clause

3. A request Object of verb He suggested that I write the

Write the letter that letter soon.
soon.

4.An exclamation Object of verb I hadn’t realized what a pretty

What; how girl she was.
What a pretty
girl she is ! Object of We talked about what a pretty
preposition girl she was.

Task 1
Underline the noun clause of the following sentences and name its function in the sentence,
then translate them.
Example:

We can see how demand and supply together determine the prices of
Subject predicate object
products and the quantities that are bought and sold.

Type: noun clause as an object of a verb

1. Some people believe that economics begins and ends with the “law” of supply and
demand.
2. We seek to understand how much of each product consumers will buy.
3. The key is always whether a time dimension is required to give the variable
meaning.
4. The new stock of water will depend on how long the flow goes on.
5. This responsiveness of demand means that in the long run, the shift in supply gives
rise to a smaller change in the equilibrium price and a larger change in quantity.

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 6. In all of these cases and many more, supply and demand analysis can be used to
determine who really pays when the government raises revenue or requires private
expenditure.
7. This is why a firm operating in a perfectly competitive market has no power to
influence that market through its own individual actions.
8. It must passively accept whatever happens to be the ruling price, but it can sell as
much as it wants at that price.
9. You will recall that in perfect competition, the firm’s marginal revenue from selling
an extra unit of output is equal to the price at which that unit is sold.
10. Productive efficiency requires that each firm produces its given output by
combining factors of production in such a way that the ratio of the marginal
products of each pair of factors is made equal to the ratio of their prices.

Task 2
Underline the main clause and the sub clause of the following sentences then translate
them.

1. How many years the buildings or equipments will be in use and how much of the
cost should be assigned to each year must of course be an estimate. Accountants
solve this problem with an assumption about periodicity. The assumption is that
the net income for a period of time less than the life of the business must be
regarded as tentative but still is a useful estimate of the net income for the period.
2. Income measurement, as noted above, requires that certain expense
transactions and revenue transactions be allocated over several accounting
periods. This creates another problem for the accountant, who of course does not
know how long the business will last.
3. To prepare financial statements for an accounting period, the accountant must
make an assumption about the ability of the business to continue. Specifically, the
accountant assumes that unless there is evidence to the contrary, the business will
continue to operate for an indefinite period.
4. The contra account is used for two very good reasons. First, it recognizes that
depreciation is an estimate. Second, the use of the contra account preserves the
fact that of original cost of the asset and shows how much of the asset has been
allocated to expense as well as the balance left to be depreciated. ```````

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