2014-07-15 Structure: noun clauses / jokes

admirable = able to be admired (we can admire it)
oneupmanship = situation where each person tries to be better than the others
one up (v) = outdo (v) = do better than someone else
rivalry = an ongoing competition between two or more
afford = able to buy somehting because you have the money
dark humor / black comedy / gallows humor = humor about negative things such as violence and death
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NOUN CLAUSE
clause: part of a sentence with a subject and a verb
noun clause: a clause that functions like a noun


(remember -
adverb clause: When I get home, I will cook dinner.
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adjective clause: Tom is the man whom you met yesterday.
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noun clauses:

What wasn't so admirable was their rivalry.
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      (subject)
                      It was their rivalry.

Each brother tried to figure out how to outdo the other two.
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                                          (object)
Each brother tried to figure out something.

All I know is that the chicken you gave me was delicious.
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I know what you did last summer.
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I know that you killed a man and hid his body last summer.
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statements:
It will rain later. I know that it will rain later.

information questions:
What did you do?    I don't know what you did.

yes/no questions
Did you kill him?   I don't know   if    you killed him.
                    I don't know whether you killed him.

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1 how far the nearest town was
2 what the name of the nearest town was
3 if I could borrow his cell phone (whether)
4 if there were any towing companies nearby
5 if he knew
6 how long he had lived
7 what his name was
8 if he knew anything at all
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p. 166 - bumper stickers (on the back of a car)
Example: What this means is that some people don't feel alive before they have coffee in the morning.

1 Many examples like, "Honk if you love Boston"
2 "If you have comments about my driving, call [company]"
  "If you don't like my driving, call 1-800-F-U-C-K-O-F-F"
  "If you don't like my driving, get off the road."

4 think about two meanings for "change" (pun)

6 Typical expression: "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion."
7 "Visualize world peace" is a common bumper sticker
8 look up the words in a dictionary
"Eschew obfuscation."
"A preposition is bad to end a sentence with."
"All generalizations are bad."
"Never listen to advice."
"Make sure that your verb and subject is in agreement."
"Try to never split infinitives."
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Homework:
p. 164 exercise 3 A
p. 167 exercise 5 (one mistake in each piece of advice)