Grammar

2.1.1 Noun

According to David Green, “A Noun may be defined as the name of a person, place or thing. By ‘thing’, we mean something that can be seen and touched (concrete) or something that can only be thought of and not seen and touched (abstract).” The words that identify the who’s, where’s and what’s in a language is a noun. Nouns name persons, places, things and feelings. This is better understood with the following example. Lisa and Tim were selling Lemonade in the park.

1. Who were selling? So the words ‘Lisa’ and ‘Tim’ are nouns. (names)

2. Where were they selling? In the park – So ‘Park” is a noun. (place)

3. What did they sell?  lemonade .  So  ‘lemonade’ is a noun (thing)

2.1.1.1 Functions of noun

In a sentence, the nouns can function as subjects, objects, and complements.

1. Richie Rich would throw lavish parties and invite his friends to his Dollar Mansion.

Richie Rich – subject for verbs ‘throw’ and ‘invite’ (doer of the action)

2. Richie Rich offered Jughead two burgers to clean up the mess. Jughead – indirect object of ‘offered’ (indirect receiver) Burgers – the direct object of ‘offered’ (direct receiver)

1. While cleaning up the mess, Jughead dumped all the coke-cans into the trash-bin.

Trash-bin – the object of preposition ‘into’ (receiver of the action)

In Richie’s opinion, Jughead is a great lazybones. Lazybones – subject complement of the linking verb ‘is’