Examples of Precis Writing of Complex Sentences containing Noun Clauses

II Complex Sentences containing Noun Clauses:- Consider the following sentences:- a) That he will be promoted is quite certain. The clause ‘that he will be promoted’ is a noun clause standing in place of a noun. We could express the same thing by saying: His promotion is quite certain. Here we have substituted the noun promotion for the noun clause. b) All people know that he is a coward. The clause ‘that he is coward’ is a noun clause doing the work of a noun and serving as the object of the word ‘know’. The same could be put in the following form, without effecting any change in the meaning: All people know of his cowardice, or His cowardice is known to all people. I told him that he should not bother you in future. It can be converted into the following sentence without injuring the sense it conveys: I told him not to bother you in future.