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5. She was aware that I appreciated her situation.
The noun clause may be contracted by making the predicate, when changed to
an infinitive phrase, the objective complement, and the subject the object
complement.
+Direction+.--_Make the following complex sentences simple by changing the
predicates of the noun clauses to objective complements, and the subjects
to object complements_:--
+Model+.--King Ahasuerus commanded that _Haman should be hanged_ = King
Ahasuerus commanded _Haman to be hanged_.
1. I believe that he is a foreigner.
2. The Governor ordered that the prisoner should be set free.
3. Many people believe that Webster was the greatest of American statesmen.
4. How wide do you think that the Atlantic ocean is?
5. They hold that taxation without representation is unjust.
+Direction+.--_Expand into complex sentences such of the sentences in
Lesson_ 41 _as contain an objective complement and an object complement
that together are equivalent to a clause_.
A noun clause may be contracted to an infinitive phrase.
+Example+.--_That he should vote_ is the duty of every American citizen =
_To vote_ is the duty of every American citizen.
+Direction+.--_Contract these noun clauses to infinitive phrases_:--
1. That we guard our liberty with vigilance is a sacred duty.


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