Noun clause. When nouns, verbs, and other words are combined into clauses, they can play any role in a sentence that a noun can play What you are looking for is right there The noun clause what you are looking for is the subject in this sentence, though it could just as easily bean object of an active verb (I see what you are looking for, an object fora preposition (I attribute that to what you are looking for, or a predicate noun (subject complement): This is what you are looking for.”
Noun clauses are usually begun with one of the relative pronouns “that,” “what,”
“whatever,” which whichever “who,” whoever whom whomever or
“whose.” Such words as how “when,” “where,” whether or why can also start noun clauses I don’t see how you can do that In this example how you can do that is the object of the verb “see.”
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