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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Noun clause

Hi."The 25-year-old pop singer has been touring the nation's radio studios to plug her new single "Big When I Was Little", a song which revels in nostalgia for Nineties pop culture." [From The Independent.]Is the "When I Was Little" a noun clause? In other words, does the "When I Was Little" do the job of a noun?Thank you.
  

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No, it's used there as an adverbial clause. An example of its use as a noun clause is eg I remember when I was little.

— Clive

  • No, it's used there as an adverbial clause.
  • An example of its use as a noun clause is eg I remember when I was little.
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No, it's used there as an adverbial clause.

An example of its use as a noun clause is
eg I remember when I was little.
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Anonymous Hi."The 25-year-old pop singer has been touring the nation's radio studios to plug her new single "Big When I Was Little", a song which revels in nostalgia for Nineties pop culture." [From The Independent.]Is the "When I Was Little" a noun clause? In other words, does the "When I Was Little" do the job of a noun?Thank you.
It is difficult to determin
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Thank you, Clive and AS, for your replies. I think along this line: "When I Was Little" = the time of childhood (a noun). So, one could be paraphrasing it as "A big time of childhood" where the adverbial (when I was little) substitutes the noun time of childhood.
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When you rephrase anything, the grammar can change dramatically.

The function of a word can change from noun to modifier to verb etc.

eg. Verb/noun definitions are quite common.
Let's go for a run in the park. (noun)
I can run three miles. (verb)

Words that can be used as many different parts of speech are not so common:

Round up th
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