Use

Noun clauses are a groups of words that function as nouns in a sentence.

Example:

They told me what happened in the story.

Explanation:

A noun clause is a group of nouns that acts as a noun in a sentence. In this sentence, what happened in the story is a noun clause that refers to the thing that they told me.

How to build

A noun clause has a subject and a verb, but it is not a complete sentence. It can function as a subject, complement, object, or as the object of a preposition.

Here are some words that are commonly used to introduce noun clauses:

• where

• however

• whatever

• whenever

• that

• if whether

• how

• what

• when

Words that introduce noun clauses cannot be omitted, except for ‘that’, which can be omitted if it is not the first word in a sentence.

• John admitted that he was meeting her.

• John admitted he was meeting her.

• That John admitted to meeting someone surprised his friends.

More Examples

• What he said surprised the rest of the team.