Identify whether the noun clause in the sentence below is used as a subject, direct object, indirect object, object of a preposi
tion 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
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.
