This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Clauses > Nominal Clauses – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Nominal Clauses Quiz 1 (41 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This sentence contains noun clause. Reduce the noun clause to infinitive phrase. He offered that he would clean the car for me. A) He offered to help clean the car for me. B) He offered to help cleaning the car for me. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He offered to help clean the car for me. 2. I tell visitors it's like we're about to enter another planet. A) Direct object. B) Subject. C) Extraposed subject. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct object. 3. This sentence contains noun clause. Reduce the noun clause to gerund phrase. She admitted that she broke the glass. A) She admitted to breaking the glass. B) She admitted breaking the glass. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She admitted breaking the glass. 4. Can you guess ..... I want? A) That. B) How. C) What. D) When. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What. 5. I often wonder ..... he's getting on. A) That. B) What. C) Which. D) How. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How. 6. The police are going to track down and find ..... was responsible for this crime. A) Whoever. B) What. C) When. D) Where. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whoever. 7. This sentence contains reduced noun clause. Indicate if the sentence is correct or incorrect. Lisamentioned going to the beach after lunch. A) Incorrect. B) Correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Correct. 8. How storms are measured is unknown to most lay people. A) Subject. B) Direct object. C) Complement of a noun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subject. 9. What those kids need ..... someone to teach them good table manners. A) Has. B) Are. C) Is. D) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is. 10. Scientists cannot say whether climate change is increasing the number of hurricanes. A) Direct object. B) Complement of a noun. C) Adjectival complement. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Direct object. 11. The historian's prediction turned out to be true. A) What predicted the historian. B) What the historian predicted. C) What predicting historian said. D) What say the historian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What the historian predicted. 12. This is an example of:It's a good idea to wear dress clothes for an interview. A) Nominal infinitive. B) Nominal question-clause. C) Nominal-ing clause. D) Nominal that clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nominal infinitive. 13. This is an example of:Wearing a uniform can help people feel part of the team. A) Nominal that clause. B) Nominal-ing clause. C) Nominal infinitive. D) Nominal question-clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nominal-ing clause. 14. Nominal clauses are independent clauses. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 15. This sentence contains noun clause. Reduce the noun clause to infinitive phrase. Please inform where we will have the meeting. A) Please inform us where to have the meeting. B) Please inform us where having the meeting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Please inform us where to have the meeting. 16. This sentence contains reduced noun clause. Indicate if the sentence is correct or incorrect. My doctor recommends eating less fat and salt. A) Incorrect. B) Correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Correct. 17. The fact you can get all of this beautiful scenery so close to Perth is remarkable. A) Subject. B) Complement of a noun. C) Direct object. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complement of a noun. 18. This sentence contains reduced noun clause. Indicate if the sentence is correct or incorrect. Jenny didn't know what to do about her expired driver's license. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 19. Which of these sentences does NOT have a nominal clause? A) I'm not someone who gets distracted easily. B) Why you asked her that is still hard to understand. C) She always does whatever she wants. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I'm not someone who gets distracted easily. 20. This sentence contains noun clause. Reduce the noun clause to infinitive phrase. She didn't know where she should go or what she should do. A) She didn't know where to go or to do. B) She didn't know where to going or to doing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She didn't know where to go or to do. 21. I'll help ..... is in trouble. A) Whoever. B) What. C) Whatever. D) Who. E) Why. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whoever. 22. This sentence contains reduced noun clause. Indicate if the sentence is correct or incorrect. He doesn't know how to solve his problem. A) Incorrect. B) Correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Correct. 23. The news broadcast confirmed the people's fears. A) What everyone was worried about. B) What concern was everyone. C) What feared was everyone. D) When was everyone what convern. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) What everyone was worried about. 24. This is an example of:I explained that she would have to buy a new outfit. A) Nominal infinitive. B) Nominal question-clause. C) Nominal that clause. D) Nominal-ing clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nominal that clause. 25. This sentence contains noun clause. Reduce the noun clause to gerund phrase. I suggested that we make the decision faster. A) I suggested making the decision faster. B) I suggested to making the decision faster. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I suggested making the decision faster. 26. Nominal clauses can be the subject or the object of a sentence A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. I don't know his name. A) What is called he. B) What he called. C) What is called. D) What he is called. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What he is called. 28. This sentence contains noun clause. Reduce the noun clause to infinitive phrase. Do you know how I can get an A in this class? A) Do you know how to get an A in this class?. B) Do you know how to getting an A in this class?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do you know how to get an A in this class?. 29. The science teacher needs to explain ..... photosynthesis works. A) What. B) Which. C) How. D) Where. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How. 30. Unfortunately it is expected that the current death toll of seven will rise. A) Extraposed subject. B) Direct object. C) Adjectival complement. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extraposed subject. 31. Can you tell me the flight's arrival time? A) When arriving the flight?. B) When are arrived the flight?. C) When have arriving the flight?. D) When the flight arrives?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When the flight arrives?. 32. Nominal clauses can be replaced with ..... A) A noun. B) They tend. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 33. This sentence contains reduced noun clause. Indicate if the sentence is correct or incorrect. He is not sure whether to study economics or marketing. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 34. This sentence contains noun clause. Reduce the noun clause to gerund phrase. She acknowledged that she had taken the bribe. A) She acknowledged to having taken the bribe. B) She acknowledged having taken the bribe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She acknowledged having taken the bribe. 35. The test results created more questions than answers. A) What the tests produced. B) What resulted the test. C) What results were test. D) Which test resulting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) What the tests produced. 36. Which of these contains an example of a nominal clause? A) When I was a child, I used to play soccer with my friends on Fridays. B) I don't understand what you said. C) James has a cousin who can speak English and Spanish. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I don't understand what you said. 37. This is an example of:Fiona felt embarrassed because of how she looked. A) Nominal-ing clause. B) Nominal question-clause. C) Nominal that clause. D) Nominal infinitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nominal question-clause. 38. Most tourists won't know that it's this same sand that created those thousands of rocky pillars. A) Adjectival complement. B) Extraposed subject. C) Direct object. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Direct object. 39. It is frustrating ..... they are not paying attention. A) How many. B) Where. C) What. D) That. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That. 40. I don't know ..... she doesn't leave him. A) What. B) Why. C) Where. D) When. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Why. 41. This sentence contains reduced noun clause. Indicate if the sentence is correct or incorrect. She wondered how to learn English faster. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. 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