What is a noun?

Question

A noun is defined as a "person, place, or thing."

Answer 1

A noun can be a person place or thing. A few examples include:

a. Person: Tom, Grandma, Miranda

b. Place: home, New York City, Ohio

C: Thing: cup, lotion, apple

Answer 2

What is a NOUN?

The word NOUN comes the LATIN word - nomen. (which means name)

A NOUN is a nameword to call a something, a some place

NOUNS also exist in other languages!

A NOUN often follows a word like "a", "an", "the", "some".

examples - "a"seat, "an"eagle, "the"show, "some"boys

A NOUN can be a person(people), a place, a thing(object).

examples - person (Brad Pitt, boy, woman, trucker) place(New York, zoo, a room) thing(paper, button, key)

OR even. . . .

an action (humming) an idea (injustice) a quality(hardness)

There are also ENDINGS added that can make a word into a NOUN.

examples disappoint + ment = disappointment adult +hood=adulthood elate +ion =elation sad +ness=sadness

YES! the same word/one word CAN be both a NOUN & a VERB .

examples -I saw a fly on the wall. (noun) I can fly a plane. (verb)

I go to the park. (noun) I park my car in the street.(verb)

There are TYPES of NOUNS

examples common nouns - do not need to be capitalized;general (dog, sky)

proper nouns - need to be capitalized; specific (Gunther, Lexx Museum)

singular nouns - (just one) (bird, truck)

plural nouns- (more than one) (books, oranges)

countable nouns - used to count/measure (dozen eggs, two boys)

uncountable nous -can't be counted specifically (lots of works, cup of coffee)

collective nouns - (flock, herd, swarm, crew, pair)

concrete nouns - can be perceived by the senses (table, tulip, rainbow)

abstract nouns -can't be perceived by senses (hate, fear, freedom)

compound nouns - two words together as one word (classroom, rainfall)

A NOUN can be INSIDE of a sentence as:

subject - Gunther went to the museum.

object - I bought a calculator.

direct object - Do you want a soda?

indirect object - He bought his mom a flower.

complement(profession/position) My son is a carpenter.

object complement - She made Susan, the captain.

A NOUN is a " part of speech".

Answer 3

Yes, that is the definition of what a noun is as a part of speech.