- Noun is a word that names a person, animal, place, thing, idea, or concept, or anything considered as noun
See the Noun examples :
- Persons: girl, boy, instructor, student, Mr. Smith, Peter, president
- Animals: dog, cat, shark, hamster, fish, bear, flea
- Places: gym, store, school, Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, village, Europe
- Things: computer, pen, notebook, mailbox, bush, tree, cornflakes
- Ideas: liberty, panic, attention, knowledge, compassion, worship
- Subject of the sentence
- Predicate Noun (also Predicate Nominative or Subjective Complement)
- Appositive (noun in apposition)
- Direct object of a verb
- Indirect object of a verb
- Object of the preposition
- Object Complement (Objective Complement)
For example:
- I like swimming
- The word ‘swimming’ is a gerund
- A phrase is a group of related words that lacks both a subject and a predicate. Because it lacks a subject and a predicate it cannot act as a sentence.
- A noun phrase consists of a pronoun or noun with any associated modifiers, including adjectives, adjective phrases, and other nouns in the possessive case.
- Like a noun, a noun phrase can act as a subject, as the object of a verb or verbal, as a subject or object complement, or as the object of a preposition, as in the following examples:
- subject
- Small children often insist that they can do it by themselves.
- More examples:
- object of a verb
- They have found Eugene's goal.
- object of a preposition
- The arctic explorers were caught unawares by the spring break up.
- subject complement
- Frankenstein is the name of the scientist not the monster.
- object complement
- I consider Loki my favourite cat.
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