Tuesday, September 15, 2015

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Agenda Finish TAL (This American Life) Introduction to Unit 10 Noun clauses

This American Life Write a letter to Melanie and give her some suggestions/ advice for how to get out of her current situation

Unit 10- Noun Clauses Things to know: What is a clause: A clause has both a subject and a verb. There are two types of clauses: independent and dependent. Independent clauses can stand alone: We walk to school. (this expresses a complete thought) Dependent clauses cannot stand alone: when the rain stops. What is a subject? It does the action. What is an object? It receives the action. Ex. I love ice-cream. Ex. My mother told me about the party.

Noun clauses Noun clauses are dependent clauses that act the same as nouns. Example: You don’t want to know the ingredients that are in my mom’s soup. What is the main noun? Ingredients! If we replace the noun ingredients with a clause, we have a noun clause. You don’t want to know what my mom adds to her soup. (Noun clause) . Ex. I cannot trust it. If we replace the pronoun it with “what he says,” we have our noun clause. I cannot trust what he says.

Subject Noun Clauses What I like about you is that you are honest. What bothers me is when people are rude to others. What I love is a good story. (it) That she survived the attack was lucky. (it) Why she loves chocolate is clear. (it) These are all subject noun clauses. Sometimes you can replace the noun clause with the word it.

Object noun clauses I don’t know how you can live in California. You can tell that she was uncomfortable with silence. You’ll never guess what I did last weekend!

Subject Complements Subject complements are expressions that follow the be copula (be- verbs) and it complements the subject of the sentence by renaming it. Ex. The class is a place of wonder. Class= place of wonder Brandon was a gifted athlete. Brandon = a gifted athlete.

Adjective Complements An adjective complement describes the noun clause. Mom was so happy they finally got married. Why was mom so happy? It’s unbelievable that she won the scholarship. What is unbelievable?

Noun Clauses Noun clauses begin with words like that, question words, words formed from -ever (whatever, whoever, whomever, whichever), or whether or if. Ex. Whoever goes to Harvard is a genius. Whatever happens is all up to you. I am not sure if I will graduate soon.

Noun Clauses The word “that” has no meaning in noun clauses. It is simply used to introduce certain noun clauses. That California is beautiful is obvious. “that” can be omitted if it comes before an object Trick* If the word that comes after (that) is a noun or a pronoun, you know that word is an object. Titanic is the story (that) I use in class often. English is the language (that) we speak in the United States. English is the language that is (verb) spoken in America. When that introduces a subject noun clause, it is never omitted. That he knew she was his future wife was so romantic! (formal) NOT He knew she was his future wife was so romantic!