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noun (nominal) clause DEFINITION In English grammar, a noun clause is a dependent clause that functions as anoun (that is, as a subject, object, orcomplement) within a sentence. Also known as a nominal clause . Two common types of noun clause in English are that -clauses and wh- clauses: ? that -clause : I believe that everything happens for a reason . ? wh- clause : How do I know what I think , until I see what I say ? See Examples and Observations below. Also see: ? Practice in Building Sentences With Noun Phrases and Noun Clauses ? Anticipatory It and Dummy It ? Complement Clause ? Extraposition ? Gerund ? Infinitive ? Noun Phrase ? Putative Should ? That -Clause ? What -Clause EXAMPLES AND OBSERVATIONS ? When Mrs. Frederick C. Littles second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse . (E.B. White, Stuart Little , 1945) ? What I like doing most of all in the evenings, these days, is sitting in a gormless stupor in front of the television, eating chocolate. (Jeremy Clarkson, The World According to Clarkson . Penguin Books, 2005) ? A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. (John Ciardi, Saturday Review , 1966) ? I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be . And I know that ridicule may be a shield , but it is not a weapon. (Dorothy Parker) ? I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature , which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. (Henry David Thoreau, Walking) ? The thought of stars contributed to the power of his feeling. What moved him was a sense of those w