A former colleague who is still teaching called me the day before yesterday and asked me a question: How can we help learners to easily distinguish the advervial "-ever clause" from the nominal one? For example:
1. Whatever you do, I'll love you forever.
2. Whatever you do is fine with me.
My answer was: Replace the clause with a pronoun, for example, someone/something or he.../it. If it sounds grammatical and meaningful, then it is a nominal clause because a noun can always be replaced with a pronoun. So the first clause of the second sentence above is a nominal clause while that of the first sentence an adverbial one.
x 1. Something/It, I'll love you.
v 2. Something/It is fine with me.
My dear friend was very satisfied with this answer.
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