Definition of Nouns

Definition of Nouns

In this section, the writer discusses the meaning or definition of nouns and types of nouns. Definition of noun according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary; any member of a class of words that typically can be combined with determiners (see determiner b) to serve as the subject of a verb, can be interpreted as singular or plural, can be replaced with a pronoun, and refer to an entity, quality, state, action, or concept

According Knapp and Watkins (2005: 57) Nouns are words that name people, places, things and ideas. In addition Lid Law in her book that. “Nouns are word that are used to name of person, place or thing”. A thing may be a real object (head), an idea (honor), an action (arrival), quality (honesty), animal (cat), condition (sick), or a material (iron). The following is table for nouns:       

No

Person

Place

Thing

Idea

1

William

California

Table

Believe

2

Paula

Jakarta

Chair

Goodness

3

Rita

Park

Noise

Romance

4

Joanne

Town

Game

Honor

5

Father

Country

Stone

Sadness

A noun is a part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action. A noun can function as a subject, object, complement, appositive, or object of a preposition.

In grammar, noun is a part of speech (also called lexical categories, grammatical categories or word classes) is a linguistic category of words. In English there are eight parts of speech. A list of parts of speech in English grammar include the following:

verb

A verb is used to show an action or a state of beinggo, write, exist, be

Noun

A noun is a word used to refer to people, animals, objects, substances, states, events, ideas and feelings. A noun functions as a subject or object of a verb and can be modified by an adjective.

John, lion, table, freedom, love ...

Adjective

Adjectives are used to describe or specify a noun or pronoun

good, beautiful, nice, my ...

Adverb

An adverb is used to modify a verb, adjective and other adverbs.

completely, never, there ...

Pronoun

A pronoun is used in the place of a noun or phrase.

I, you, he, she, it ...

 

a Pronoun

A pronoun is used in the place of a noun or phrase.

I, you, he, she, it ...

Conjunction

Conjunctions join clauses or sentences or words

and, but, when ...

Interjection

Interjections are used to show surprise or emotion.

oh!, Good Lord

 Examples of parts of speech

Here are some examples of parts of speech:

·         My (adjective) friend (noun) speaks (verb) English (noun) fluently (adverb).

·         Oh! (interjection) I ( pronoun) went (verb) to (preposition) school (noun) and (conjunction) I ( pronoun) met (verb) Fred (noun).

Nouns can be singular or plural. The plural form of a noun is usually formed by adding s at the end of the noun. But this is not always the case. There are exceptions to the rule. Some plurals are irregular:

Singular

Particular

Fish

Fish

Tooth

Teeth

Man

Men

Woman

Women

 

Based on Lynch and Anderson (2013: 67) noun-phrase is countable and singular, you always need an article (or another determiner).  So  you  could  never  use,  for  example,  sample,  pipe,  experiment  without  a determiner of some sort, because these are all singular countable nouns.  The choice of determiner depends on the context, and what you mean. You could say ‘the experiment’, ‘an  experiment’, ‘our  experiment’, ‘that  experiment’, ‘one  experiment’, but never just ‘experiment’.)  So  a/an  (the  indefinite  article)  must  be  used  with  singular  countable  noun-phrases  if  you don't  need  the  or  another  determiner.  You  could  say  that  a/an  is  the  default  for  singular countable  noun-phrases;  if  you  have  no  reason  to  use  another  determiner,  you  must  use a/an.

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