This document discusses the use of question words like who, what, when, where, why and how to introduce noun clauses. It notes that question word order is not used in a noun clause and provides examples of questions and the corresponding noun clauses. It also explains that a noun or pronoun followed by the verb "be" in a question comes before "be" in the noun clause, and a prepositional phrase does not come before "be" in a noun clause. Finally, it states that question word order and noun clause word order are the same when the question word is used as the subject.

1. 14-2 NounClauses That Begin
with a Question Word
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2. Thesequestion
wordscanbeusedto
introduceanoun
clause:
when, where, why, how, who, whom,
what, which, whose

3. Questionorderis
NOTusedinanoun
clause:
Information
Question
Noun Clause
Where does he
live?
I don’t know where he lives.
When did they
leave?
I don’t know when they left.
What did they
say?
I don’t know what they said.
Why is Tom
absent.
I don’t know why Tom is absent.

4. Anounorpronoun
thatfollowsthemain
verbbeinaquestion
comesinfrontofbe
inanounclause.
Information
Question
Noun Clause
Who is that
boy?
Tell me who that boy is.
Whose pen is
this?
Do you know whose pen this is?

5. Aprepositional
phrasedoesnot
comeinfrontofbein
anounclause:
Information
Question
Noun Clause
Who is in the
office?
I don’t know who is in the office.
Whose keys are
on the counter?
I wonder whose keys are on the
counter.

6. Questionwordorder
andnounclauseword
orderarethesame
whenthequestionword
isusedasasubject.
Information
Question
Noun Clause
Who came to
class?
I don’t know who came to class.
What
happened?
Tell me what happened.