Pengertian
noun clause
Noun clause adalah klausa yang berfungsi sebagai
nomina. Karena fungsinya sebagai nomina, maka noun
clause dapat menduduki
posisi-posisi berikut:
- Subjek kalimat (subject of a sentence)
- Objek verba transitif (object of a transitive verb)
- Objek preposisi (object of a preposition)
- Pelengkap (complement)
- Pemberi keterangan tambahan (noun in apposition)
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jelasnya, perhatikanlah contoh-contoh di bawah ini!
Noun clause sebagai subjek kalimat
Contoh:
What you said doesn’t convince me at all.
How he becomes so rich makes people curious.
What the salesman has said is untrue.
That the world is round is a fact.
Noun clause sebagai objek verba transitif
Contoh:
I know what you mean.
I don’t understand what he is talking
about.
He said that his son would
study in Australia.
Verba yang
dapat diikuti noun clause dalam hal ini that-clause antara lain adalah:
admit : mengakui
realize : menyadari
announce : mengumumkan
recommend : menganjurkan
believe : percaya
remember : ingat
deny : menyangkal
reveal : menyatakan,
mengungkapkan
expect : mengharapkan
say : mengatakan
find : menemukan
see : melihat
forget : lupa
stipulate : menetapkan
hear : mendengar
suggest : menganjurkan
inform : memberitahukan
suppose : mengira
know : tahu, mengetahui
think : pikir, berpendapat
promise : berjanji
understand : mengerti
propose : mengusulkan
wish : ingin, berharap
Noun clause sebagai objek preposisi
Contoh:
Please listen to what your teacher is
saying.
Budi pays full attention to how the native
speaker is pronouncing the English
word.
Be careful of what you’re doing.
Noun clause sebagai pelegkap
Contoh:
The good news is that the culprit has
been put into the jail.
This is what I want.
That is what you need.
Noun clause sebagai noun in apposition
Contoh:
The idea that people can live
without oxygen is unreasonable.
The fact that Rudi always
comes late doesn’t surprise me.
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