To work properly in English grammar noun clauses must be part of a larger sentence to form a complete thought.
Example of noun clause and adjective clause. The verb is serve and the adjective clause describes the restaurant. In formal writing adjective clauses begin with the relative pronouns whom that or which. In informal writing or speech you may omit the relative pronoun when it is not the subject of the adjective clause.
Noun clauses are highly versatile. Noun clauses are clauses that act like nouns in sentences. Basic Grammar By Chandrakant Ingle Noun clause is a type of subordinate clause which does the work of a noun.
I want to know what all the fuss is about What all the fuss is about is the noun clause and functions in the sentence as the direct object of the verb know. - The student will receive a prize. The noun clause is a clause that functions like a noun in the sentence.
Whereas adjective clause is used as a adjective to modify noun and adjective in the sentence. Who lives next to my house is the adjective clause thats coming next to the noun guy and modifying it. By removing the adjective clause from the first example above we lose a necessary piece of information that changes the meaning of the sentence.
Noun clauses are dependent clauses and cannot function alone as a complete sentence. For grammatical classifications that use object instead of complement noun clauses can equally stand as indirect or direct objects nominatives a grammatical form case of nouns and pronouns that identifies the subject of a sentence or clause objects of a preposition. The following words can introduce a noun clause.
Note that an adjective clause generally follows the noun or pronoun it modifies while an adjective usually precedes it. The italicized words what you said yesterday serve as a dependent noun clause. For example in the sentence She liked that he was always on time the noun clause that he.