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Originally Posted by Buddhaheart ‘That Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.’ is a noun clause as it answers the question ‘in believing what?’ |
Yes, that's it! It is the direct object of the verb "believing". If I broke it down further, I believe

that the "in believing" has been reduced from "when it believed", so that may be the "adverbial" you are thinking of. I'm not sure if "in -ing" is an established adverb reduction though...interesting!
Fiona