In the sentence, "What Captain Smollett said left Jim feeling like a life at sea was not in his future," the noun clause is...

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left Jim feeling.
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what Captain Smollett said.
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like a life at sea.
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was not in his future.

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In the sentence "What Captain Smollett said left Jim feeling like a life at sea was not in his future," the noun clause is "what Captain Smollett said." This clause functions as the subject of the verb "left."