NOUN CLAUSES

Pengertian Noun Clause

Noun Clause adalah dependent clause yang berfungsi sebagai noun (kata benda). Klausa kata benda ini dapat berfungsi sebagai subject maupun object di dalam suatu clause atau phrase lain. Karena berfungsi sebagai kata benda, maka dapat digantikan dengan pronoun “it“.

Rumus Noun Clause

Noun clause dapat diawali oleh noun clause markers berupa question word, if atau whether, dan that. Adapun contoh noun clause pada clause lain beserta detail marker-nya dapat dilihat pada tabel sebagai berikut.

Marker	Detail	Contoh Kalimat  Noun Clause
Question Word	Question word: what(ever), what (time, kind, day, etc), who(ever), whose, whom(ever), which(ever), where(ever), when(ever), how (long, far, many times, old, etc)	The class listened to what the teacher said.
		The kitten followed wherever the woman went.
		Many people imagine how many time the man was failed before success. (Banyak orang membayangkan berapa kali pria itu gagal sebelum sukses.)
if atau whether	biasanya digunakan untuk kalimat jawaban dari pertanyaan yes-no question atau bentuk reported speech dari pertanyaan tersebut	Where does Andy live? I wonder if he lives in West Jakarta.
		Is Andy live on Dewi Sartika Street? I don’t know if he live on Dewi Sartika Street or not. atau I don’t know whether or not he lives on Dewi Sartika street.
		She wanted to know if he lived on Dewi Sartika street. [indirect speech dari yes-no question]
that	biasanya that-clause untuk mental activity. Berikut daftar verb pada main clause yang biasanya diikuti that-clause:assume, believe, discover, dream, guess, hear, hope, know, learn, notice, predict, prove, realize, suppose, suspect, think	I think that the group will arrive in an hour.
		Many people proved that the man was a big liar. (Banyak orang membuktikan bahwa pria itu pembohong besar.)

Fungsi Noun Clauses

1.    Noun clause sebagai subject kalimat (subject of a sentence)

 Contoh kalimat:

1.     What you said doesn’t convince me at all.

2.     How he becomes so rich makes people curious.

3.     What the salesman has said is untrue.

4.     That the world is round is a fact.

2.    Noun clause sebagai object verba transitif (object of a transitive verb)

 Contoh kalimat:

1.     I know what you mean.

2.     I don’t understand what he is talking about.

3.     Please tell me what happened.

4.     He said that his son would study in Australia.

3.    Noun clause sebagai object preposisi (object of a preposition)

 Contoh kalimat:

1.     Please listen to what your teacher is saying.

2.     Be careful of what you’re doing.

3.     He will attend the party with wichever fits to his body

4.    Noun clause sebagai pelengkap (complement)

 Contoh kalimat:

1.     The good news is that the culprit has been put into the jail.

2.     This is what I want.

3.     That is what you need.

5.    Noun clause sebagai pemberi keterangan tambahan (noun in apposition)

 Contoh kalimat:

1.     The idea that people can live without oxygen is unreasonable.

2.     The fact that Adam always comes late doesn’t surprise me.

That today is his birthday is not right.