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Noun Clause Exercise
Noun Clause Exercise
Noun Clause Exercise
Lesson 12.8.4
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Noun Clauses
ExErCisE 1 identifying Noun Clauses
Underline each noun clause in the following paragraph. Hint: Not every sentence contains a noun clause, and in one sentence, the clauses introductory word has been omitted.
EXAMPLE How did early Americans explain how the ancient mounds in the Midwest had been built?
A noun clause can function as a subject, predicate nominative, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
Whoever had built them, most felt, were not the ancestors of the present-day
Native Americans. 2 People assumed the builders must have been some more civilized Old World people. 3 Most Americans only wondered which Old World group had built the mounds and what had happened to those people. 4 Was it the Greeks, the Romans, the Vikings, or even the Lost Tribes of Israel? 5 Why people believed in these legendary Mound Builders is related to their cultural biases and their desire to create a romantic prehistory for North America. 6 Different legends about who built the mounds continue today.