What the teacher said surprised us all. the bolded words are what kind of clause?
adjective clause

adverb clause

noun clause

C) Noun Clause.

Explanation: an adjective clause modifies a noun or a pronoun and it is introduced by the words who, whose, whom, which, that, when or where. And adverb clause modifies a verb, and adjective or another adverb, and it is introduced by words like: after, although, as, as if, before, because, if, since, so that, than, though, unless, until, when, etc. A noun clause has the same function as a noun or a pronoun, it can be the subject of the sentence, the direct object, indirect object, etc. We can identify the noun clause by replacing it by the pronoun "it" or the pronouns "he" or "she." In this case, the bolded words are a noun clause because it is the subject of the sentence and we can replace it by "it": It surprised us all.

the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

explanation:

its hard for me to see which word is supposed to be in bold. if i knew then i would be able to better.