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noun clause
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noun clause

Group of words that has the grammatical function of a noun. A noun clause is similar to a noun phrase, in that it can function as a subject, object, or complement of a main clause.
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Put another way, the dependent clause elaborates on the main message (Derewianka, 1998).
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Subject-verb agreement questions concentrated on tricky issues: disjunctive subjects found with correlative conjunctions, such as "Neither his sisters nor his brother (is/are) coming" and subject-verb agreement in dependent clauses like "He is one of the boys who (was/were) chosen.
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