10. The world will not anxiously inquire who you are.
11. It will ask of you, "What can you do?"
12. The peacock struts about, saying, "What a fine tail I have!"
13. He does not know which to choose.
(See explanation of (7), above.)
14. No one can tell how or when or where he will die.
15. Philosophers are still debating whether the will has any control over
the current of thought in our dreams.
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LESSON 72.
NOUN CLAUSE--CONTINUED.
Analysis.
The +noun clause+ may be used as +attribute complement+.
1. A peculiarity of English is, that it has so many borrowed words.
2. Tweed's defiant question was, "What are you going to do about it?"
3. The question ever asked and never answered is, "Where and how am I to
exist in the Hereafter?"
4. Hamlet's exclamation was, "What a piece of work is man!"
5. The myth concerning Achilles is, that he was invulnerable in every part
except the heel.
The +noun clause+ may be used as +explanatory modifier+.
6. It has been proved that the earth is round.
that
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earth | is ' \ round
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It (/ \) | has been proved
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+Explanation+.
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