Question

The league will provide whomever wins the Spirit Award a $1,000 scholarship. Select the answer that identifies the part of speech the noun clause performs in the sentence.

subject
indirect object
object of preposition
predicate nominative

I think its subject but im not sure and i want to get it right...help pleasee!

Answer 1

The noun clause in this sentence is an "indirect object".

The noun clause "whomever wins the Spirit Award" is acting as an indirect object since it is talking about the person performing the action (win).

The subject of the sentence is "The league", so the noun clause cannot be the sentence subject.

In this example, the noun clause cannot act as the object of a preposition since it is not preceded by one.

Answer 2

Noun clauses are dependent clauses and can serve the role of the subject in a sentence.  In this cause, the noun clause is "whomever wins the Spirit Award".  The person winning the spirit award is doing an action, so they are the subject of the sentence.