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14 Writing with Noun
Clauses
What Do You KnoW?
DISCUSS Look at the photo and read the caption. Discuss the questions.
1. What is the most interesting feature of this room? Why is it interesting?
2. Think of a special room that you know, either in your own home or another place.
What makes that room special?
FInD the errorS This paragraph contains two errors with noun clauses. Find the errors
and correct them. Explain your corrections to a partner.
NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH
The Mysterious Key
1 Ben did not remember when he first saw the key. It was a long, slender, silver key,
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and it had a faded red ribbon tied to it. He did not tell anyone that he had found it in
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the center drawer of his grandfather’s old oak desk. He wondered what was the key
for, so he walked from room to room in his grandparents’ house, searching for a lock
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the key would open. In his grandparents’ bedroom, inside the nightstand next to the
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bed, Ben found a small wooden box. The key fit! What he found inside the box took
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his breath away. He quickly locked the box, put it back into the nightstand, ran out of
the bedroom, and placed the key back into the center drawer of his grandfather’s desk.
9 Whether he ever told anyone was in the box also remains a mystery to this day.
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