Nouns
A noun is a word that is used to name a person, animal, place, or thing. They can also name an abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first words which we learn as we learn how to speak. The highlighted words in the following sentences are all nouns:
Last year our neighbors bought a house.
Luciano Pavarotti is an opera singer. The train conductor looked at all the passengers' tickets.
According to Plutarch, the library at Alexandria was destroyed in 48 B.C.
A warm bed 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.
A noun is a word that is used to name a person, animal, place, or thing. They can also name an abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first words which we learn as we learn how to speak. The highlighted words in the following sentences are all nouns:
Last year our neighbors bought a house.
Luciano Pavarotti is an opera singer. The train conductor looked at all the passengers' tickets.
According to Plutarch, the library at Alexandria was destroyed in 48 B.C.
A warm bed 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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