Question

What Sayli said made her friends proud of her.
Choose the option that contains the subject of the given sentence
A) What Sayli said
B) made
C) her friends
D) proud of her

Answer 1

Hint: A dependent phrase that acts as a noun is called a noun clause. What, whatever, whose, and that are common beginnings of a noun clause. In a sentence, a noun clause can be used as a subject, object, predicate nominative, or prepositional object. Here in this question, it has been used as a subject.

Complete answer:
Let us analyze the given options:
Option A) Correct choice. "What Sayli said" is a noun clause in the provided phrase (it contains the subject noun 'Sayli' and the verb ‘’said’’). A noun clause is known as a dependent phrase that acts as the subject of a phrase. In the sentence, it serves as the subject of the word "created." As a result, option A is right.

Option B) Incorrect choice. ‘Made’ is a verb. A verb cannot act as a subject. When combined with a verb that serves as the sentence predicate, a noun or pronoun acts as the sentence subject. Hence, as ‘made’ is a verb and not a noun or pronoun, this option is incorrect.

Option C) Incorrect choice. Option C is inaccurate because the verb's object, 'her friends,' is the beneficiary, not the performer, of the action ‘made’. The subject does something, and the object receives it.

Option D) Incorrect choice. ‘Proud of her’ is the object complement. A predictive statement that follows a direct object of an attributive ditransitive verb or resultative verb that complements the direct object of the sentence by describing it is known as an object complement. Therefore option D is inappropriate.

Therefore the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note: A noun clause is a collection of words that work together to form a noun. When a single word isn't enough, noun clauses are employed.
- Dependent clauses are always in the present tense.
- Words like how, that, what, when, where, which, who, and why are frequently used to begin them.