Discussion
'..... he hardly knew what to say to her.'
The underlined is a/an __________ clause.
Answer: B
The key calls the underlined part a Noun clause.
'What to say to her' is the object of the verb 'knew': it answers the question 'knew what?', just as a noun would ('he hardly knew the answer'). A group of words that does the work of a noun in this way is classed as a noun clause in school grammar, though strictly it is an infinitive phrase.
It cannot be a principal clause, since it cannot stand alone; it does not describe a noun (adjective clause) or tell how, when or why (adverb clause).
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