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)
1 Noun clause sebagai subjek kalimat
Contoh:
a) What you said doesn’t convince me at all.
b) How he becomes so rich makes people curious.
2 Noun clause sebagai objek verba transitif
Contoh:
a) I know what you mean.
b) I don’t understand what he is talking about.
3 Noun clause sebagai objek preposisi
Contoh:
a) Please listen to what your teacher is saying.
b) Budi pays full attention to how the native speaker is pronouncing the English word.
4 Noun clause sebagai pelegkap
Contoh:
a) The good news is that the culprit has been put into the jail.
b) This is what I want.
5 Noun clause sebagai noun in apposition
Contoh:
a) The idea that people can live without oxygen is unreasonable.
b) The fact that Rudi always comes late doesn’t surprise me.
