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Fold navy 285 Posted 4 years ago
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What appeared to be

At that point, the man who refused to obey pulled what appeared to be a handgun.

Is what appeared to be a handgun a noun phrase in the sentence above?

  

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It is a content clause, also called a noun clause.

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It is a content clause, also called a noun clause.

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fold navy 285Is what appeared to be a handgun a noun phrase in the sentence above?

Yes. As far as I know, all of those fused relative constructions that start with what are NPs except when they are interrogative content clauses: I didn't know what happened.

CJ

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