Question

Modify the noun clause into a noun phrase:
The people believed that the government was involved. [Advanced]

• A. the government was involvement
• B. in the government's involvement
• C. the government's involved
• D. none of the above

Answer 1

The correct option is B in the government's involvement

A noun clause is a dependent clause that functions as a noun. It usually begins with what, whatever, whom, that and other such relative pronouns. A noun clause can act as a subject, object, predicate nominative or object of a preposition, in a sentence.
A noun phrase is a word or a group of words containing a noun, that functions as the subject, object or object of a preposition in a sentence. A phrase does not contain a subject or a verb, or both of them (as opposed to a clause).
Option B is a noun phrase that is the reduced form of the underlined noun clause, where the verb 'involved' is changed to a noun 'involvement'. It is the most appropriate option that is equivalent in meaning to the clause. Hence option B is correct.
Option A is incorrect because it is neither a clause nor a phrase, the verb 'was' is followed by 'involvement' instead of 'involved', it's grammatically incorrect.
Similarly, option C is incorrect because it is grammatically incorrect.
Option D is incorrect because the answer lies in B.