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Cybercrystal Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Noun clauses

Is this sentence an example of noun clause?

It is a universally accepted truth that a man with a good fortune is in want of a wife.
  

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Hi, Is this sentence an example of noun clause? It is a universally accepted truth that a man with a good fortune is in want of a wife. Yes.

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Hi,

Is this sentence an example of noun clause?

It is a universally accepted truth that a man with a good fortune is in want of a wife.

Yes. You see this more clearly if you rearrange the words like this.

That a man with a good fortune is in w
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Great! What about this one?

I really don't know what my life will be like 10 years henceforth.

Can I use henceforth here?
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Hi,
Great! What about this one?

I really don't know what my life will be like 10 years henceforth .Fine.

Can I use henceforth here? Yes

Clive

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In Jane Austen's sentence is the noun clause the subject of the sentence?
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Hi,

Yes. That's what she is telling us about.

Clive
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Hi,
How does this sound?
She's as fragile as a glass.
or she is as sensitive as what?
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