"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)
Untuk lebih
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.
http://citrasat.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/pengertian-noun-clause/
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