If words that are nouns identify who, what, where, when, why and how; then are the words see spot run an example of noun words?

Question

Nouns reference a person place thing and idea.

Answer 1

Spot is the only one of your three words that is most often a noun, though all three can be either a noun or a verb.

See is more commonly a verb, as in the three-word sentence from an American English reading textbook as old as I am, It can be a proper noun to refer to a religious jurisdiction, especially the Pope’s “Holy See.”

Spot can be a verb that’s very similar to the verb to see, as in “I spot a problem with your idea.”

Run is usually a verb, as in “I run to work.” It can, however, be a noun referring to the act of running (“I get my morning run on the way to work”) or the place where running happens, especially for animals, such as a dog run.

The “who, what, ...” guide you cited is more useful for the parts of a narrative. “Person, place, or thing,” as Jennie noted, is a better rule for identifying a word being used as a noun.

Answer 2

To determine whether or not a word is a noun, i.e. person, place, thing, idea, or feeling, ask yourself if it is something you can point to or experience! For example, headache, joy, compassion, frustration, and nausea are "things" you can feel. Abstract nouns (Idea Nouns), according to Quora, "name an idea, quality, or thing you can't see, hear, smell, or taste." Ideas are concepts, i.e. thought (I am smart enough to do my homework), belief (like Democracy, Buddhism), plan (In ten years I'm going to be rich), or opinion (Children perform better in school when they have eaten a healthy breakfast.)

Regarding your sentence: See Spot run!

If you didn't know Spot was a dog, you would still guess it is a proper noun because Spot is capitalized, even though it's not the first word in a new sentence!

Before Spot is the word "see." See is an active verb because it tells us to do something. Run is also an active verb for that reason.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Yes see spot run are examples of words that are nouns. Spot is personalized as the name of a dog in a childrens novel. To see spot run is to know what spot is doing which is to see spot run. Run and see are also action words. To add the descriptive word sluggishly or speedily to the sentence would look like see spot run sluggishly or see spot run speedily are also action words that can be viewed as either action pronouns or adjective words. These two types of words describe the characteristics of the action words used in a sentence or when personalized by describing the person animal or object.