Practice exercise #7

Topics: Ask about an article.

Sub-topics: Noun clauses, Embedded questions.

For this section I will make a review of the topics learned through on a exercise using all the structures, vocabulary and more to show my improvement at these topics.

 Noun clauses: Embedded questions

Sub-topics: Ask about an article

A question can be include in a noun clause. At the beginning of a noun clause, some expresions are used as an introducction to the embedded question:

- Tell me...

- I'd like to know...

- Could you tell me...?

- I can't remember...

- I don't understand...

- I wonder...

- I'm not sure...

- I don't know...

- Do you know...?

There are two ways of questions that can be embedded:

1. Yes/No questions ➡ Embedded Yes/No questions

Structure: Expression + IF + Subject + (Auxiliary) + Verb + complement

Examples:

• Is that magazine interesting ➡ Tell me IF that magazine is interesting.
• Did he like the article? ➡ I'd like to know IF he liked the article.
• Have you finished that newspaper? ➡ Could you tell me IF you've finished that newspaper?

     2. Information questions ➡ Embedded information questions

Structure: Expression + Wh question + Subject + (Auxiliary) + Verb + Complement

Examples: 

• What's the article about? ➡  I can't remember WHAT the article's about.
• Why have you decided to read it? ➡ I don't understand WHY you've decided to read it.
• Who's the writer? ➡ I wonder WHO the writer is.
• Whose magazine is it? ➡ I'm not sure WHOSE magazine it is.
• When was it written? ➡ I don't know WHEN it was written.
• Where is the writer from? ➡ Do you know WHERE the writer is from?

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Practice Exercise #6

Topics: Reading for pleasure, Noun clauses.

Sub-topics: Recommend a book, Ways to describe a book.

For this section I will make a review of the topics learned through on a exercise using all the structures, vocabulary and more to show my improvement at these topics.

 Noun Clauses

We use "NOUN CLAUSES" for giving information about something. A noun clause is introduced by the word "THAT", a noun cluse it's a sentence inside another sentence.

Structure:

Subject + Verb + Complement + THAT + Subject + Verb + Complement.

Noun clauses often follow these verbs and adjecives:

Agree           Hear                                        Disappointed
Think           See                                           Happy
Believe       Understand                            Sad
Feel             Hope                                        Sorry
Suppose     Forget                                     Sure
Doubt          Remember                            Surprised
Guess          Know

Examples:

1. I didn't know THAT he wrote this book.
2. I think THAT Junot Diaz's novels are fantastic.
3. Did you forget THAT her biography was 500 pages long? 

When we speak or when the noun clause functions as a direct object, the word "THAT" may be omitted.

Examples:

1. I didn't know he wrote this book.
2. I think Junot Diaz's novels are fantastic.
3. Did you forget her biography was 500 pages long?

When we use short answers, we can use "SO" to replace a noun clause after the verbs THINK, BELIEVE, GUESS and HOPE.
Examples:

A: Does Stephen King have a new book out?
B: I THINK SO/ I BELIEVE SO/ I GUESS SO/ I HOPE SO.

(SO = I THINK Stephen King have a new book out)

Note: "SO" is only used for affirmative in all the verbs, but in negative we use: 

I DON'T THINK SO/ I DON'T BELIEVE SO/ I GUESS NOT/ I HOPE NOT. 

(I don't guess so/ I don't hope so) 

Finally, a noun clause can also be an adjective complement.

Examples:

1. It's interesting (THAT) she wrote a new book.
2. I'm surprised (THAT) he hasn't written a new novel yet.

At speaking, the stress in the sentence is pronunced in the verb.

There's a lot of words that can be used as a NOUN CLAUSE:

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