Question

Identify whether the noun clause in the sentence below is used as a subject, direct object, indirect object, object of a preposition or a predicate nominative. The nonconformists violated whichever guidelines they believed were followed by the majority. a. subject b. direct object c. indirect object d. predicate nominative e. object of preposition

Answer 1

im pretty sure its C correct me if im wrong and if its wrong its a

Answer 2

b. direct object

Step-by-step explanation:

The whole noun clause "whichever guidelines they believed were followed by the majority" is the direct object of the transitive verb "violated" carried out by the subject "The nonconformists." There is no indirect object in the sentence, and no predicate nominative either, since there are no copulative verbs in it. The only preposition in the sentence is "by" and its object is not a clause.