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)
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.
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.