What is a Noun?
A
noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn. The
highlighted words in the following
sentences are all nouns:
- Late last year our neighbours bought a goat.
- Portia White was an opera singer.
- The bus inspector looked at all the passengers' passes.
- According to Plutarch, the library at Alexandria was destroyed in 48 B.C.
- Philosophy is of little comfort to the starving.
A noun can function in a sentence as a
subject, a
direct object, an
indirect object, a
subject complement, an
object complement, an
appositive, an
adjective or an
adverb.
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