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In this short video we'll be discussing noun clauses with it and whether. So, noun
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clauses with it or whether are just like any other noun clause. They're dependent
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clauses, so they need to be attached to an independent clause, and we use it or
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whether to introduce these types of noun clauses. We use these types of noun
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clauses to change yes-or-no questions into clauses or dependent clauses. We
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use statement word order in these types of noun clauses just like the WH
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question noun clauses we don't use question word order and we don't use a
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question mark at the end of the sentence. if the noun clause is in a statement.
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So, let's look at some examples we have this first yes-or-no question
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"Are the students studying?" Now he want to try to change this into a noun clause so we
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start with the independent clause "the instructor wants to know" We just make this
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independent clause up and we're going to add "if" and then we switch the subject
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and verb so that their in statement word order so we have "The instructor wants to know
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if the students are studying" Here's another example: "Did the students see the email?"
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Start with the independent clause "She wonders" then we can use if or whether,
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statement word order. She wonders if the students saw the email." So
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you can see that in the original question we have the helping verb in the
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past tense, subject and then the main verb, and then in the noun clause we have the subject
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and the verb as if it was just a statement. "Should they write the email?" Another yes/no
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question. We start with the independent class "He's not sure" then we start with "if" or
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"whether" and then we have the subject "they should write the e-mail." So we're going to talk about one common error
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that a lot of people make a mistake with using these types of noun clauses.
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The first error is using 'that' and 'if' or 'whether' to connect the independent clause with
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the noun clause, so for example we have "The student wants to know that if there's homework."
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So, we can't use both 'that' and 'if' in the sentence. To correct this error, we start with this
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error "the student wants to know that if there's homework" We just take out 'that'
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and now we have a sentence, a complex sentence with the 'if' or 'whether' noun clause.