It is true that the glorious sun pours down his golden flood as cheerily
on the poor man's cottage as on the rich man's palace.
+Direction+.--_Vary the following sentence so as to illustrate five
different kinds of noun clauses_:--
+Model+.--
1. _That stars are suns_ is the belief of astronomers.
2. Astronomers believe _that stars are suns_.
3. The belief of astronomers is, _that stars are suns_.
4. The belief _that stars are suns_ is held by astronomers.
5. Astronomers are confident _that stars are suns_.
1. Our conclusion is, that different forms of government suit different
stages of civilization.
The noun clause may be contracted by changing the predicate to a
participle, and the subject to a possessive.
+Example+.--_That he was brave_ cannot be doubted = _His being brave_
cannot be doubted.
+Direction+.--_Make the following complex sentences simple by changing the
noun clauses to phrases_:--
1. That the caterpillar changes to a butterfly is a curious fact.
2. Everybody admits that Cromwell was a great leader.
3. A man's chief objection to a woman is, that she has no respect for the
newspaper.
4. The thought that we are spinning around the sun at the rate of twenty
miles a second makes us dizzy.
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