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The document discusses noun clauses, providing examples sentences with underlined noun clauses and indicating their function. It analyzes sentences containing noun clauses functioning as subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, and objects of prepositions.

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Noun Clauses - Jorge Jimenez

The document discusses noun clauses, providing examples sentences with underlined noun clauses and indicating their function. It analyzes sentences containing noun clauses functioning as subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, and objects of prepositions.

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JORGE JIMENEZ
Mr. Sinkinson, p.
English 9

Noun Clauses
Underline the noun clause in each sentence. Then indicate whether it functions as a subject (S), direct object
(DO), indirect object (IO), predicate nominative (PN), or object of a preposition (OP).
S
_____ 1. That birth order influences personality is an intriguing idea.

DO 2.
_____ Some evidence shows that first-born children tend to be more conservative and traditional.
Text
DO 3.
_____ Yet this fact doesn’t explain why many of the greatest inventors are first-born children.

S
_____ 4. Whichever child is born in the middle may become a good negotiator.

OP 5.
_____ These negotiating skills could be useful in whatever career the person chooses later.

S 6.
_____ Why the youngest ones are usually risk takers is not hard to understand.

IO 7.
_____ Parents may give whoever is the youngest more freedom.

IO 8.
_____ Therefore, how parents treat each child also strongly influences personality.

OP 9.
_____ People’s self-images should not be defined by what some experts say about birth order.

IO 10.
_____ Regardless of birth order, people can be whoever they want to be.

DO 11.
_____ Many adoptive parents have feared that their children could suffer from being adopted.

OP 12.
_____ Therapists looked for certain problems in whoever was adopted.

DO 13.
_____ They thought that adopted children would be more likely than other children to have problems
at home and in school.

PN 14.
_____ What the therapists overlooked was the large number of adopted children who are well-
adjusted.
DO 15.
_____ They studied whoever was adopted and ignored other factors.

PN 16.
_____ The reason some children are adopted is that they were abused or neglected by their birth
parents.

S 17.
_____ That abuse and neglect hurt children is clear.
OP 18.
_____ Most adopted children recover from whatever affected them early in life.
PN 19.
_____ That is why they are as successful as their peers.
OP 20.
_____ What researchers have found in several studies of adopted teens is good psychological
health.

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