+Example+.—That he was brave cannot be doubted = His being brave cannot be doubted.
+Direction+.—Make the following complex sentences simple by changing the noun clauses to phrases:—
1. That the caterpillar changes to a butterfly is a curious fact. 2. Everybody admits that Cromwell was a great leader. 3. A man's chief objection to a woman is, that she has no respect for the newspaper. 4. The thought that we are spinning around the sun at the rate of twenty miles a second makes us dizzy. 5. She was aware that I appreciated her situation.
The noun clause may be contracted by making the predicate, when changed to an infinitive phrase, the objective complement, and the subject the object complement.
+Direction+.—Make the following complex sentences simple by changing the predicates of the noun clauses to objective complements, and the subjects to object complements:—
+Model+.—King Ahasuerus commanded that Haman should be hanged = King
Ahasuerus commanded Haman to be hanged.
1. I believe that he is a foreigner. 2. The Governor ordered that the prisoner should be set free. 3. Many people believe that Webster was the greatest of American statesmen. 4. How wide do you think that the Atlantic ocean is? 5. They hold that taxation without representation is unjust.
+Direction+.—Expand into complex sentences such of the sentences in Lesson 41 as contain an objective complement and an object complement that together are equivalent to a clause.
A noun clause may be contracted to an infinitive phrase.
+Example+.—That he should vote is the duty of every American citizen = To vote is the duty of every American citizen.