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
The Functions of Nouns in Sentences
1.Subject of the sentence
2.Predicate Noun (also Predicate Nominative or Subjective Complement)
3. Appositive (noun in apposition)
4. Direct object of a verb
5. Indirect object of a verb
6. Object of the preposition
7. Object Complement (Objective Complement)
Gerunds can also be classified as noun
For example:
• I like swimming.
The word ‘swimming’ is a gerund
PHRASES
• 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 ...
• Small children often insist that they can do it by themselves.
A noun phrase is either a single noun or pronoun or a group of words containing a noun or a pronoun that function together as a noun or pronoun, as the subject or object of a verb.
EXAMPLES OF NOUN PHRASES:
e.g.: John was late.
('John' is the noun phrase functioning as the subject of the verb.)
e.g: The people that I saw coming in the building at nine o'clock have just left.
('The people ... nine o'clock' is a lengthy noun phrase, but it functions as the subject of the main verb 'have just left'.)
formation of noun phrase:
a) Idefinite
Article(a/an) + Noun
examples : a truck, an examination, an investment
(truck is headword, a is word that describe the head.)
examples : a truck, an examination, an investment
(truck is headword, a is word that describe the head.)
b) Definite Article(The) + Noun
examples : the ship, the soup, the cars, the model
(ship, soup, cars,model are headword)
c) Demonstrative Adjective(this, these, that, those) + Noun
examples :
This song, That poem, those disasters
That stranger, These tragedies, this liquid
d) Possessive Adjective(my, her, your, etc) + Noun
examples : Her computers, your ideas, brittany’s question
Numerals example :
That stranger, These tragedies, this liquid
d) Possessive Adjective(my, her, your, etc) + Noun
examples : Her computers, your ideas, brittany’s question
Numerals example :
- two
tympanis (=dua
buah timpani)
- Four
members
(=empat orang anggota)
- Three
guest
(=ketiga tamu)
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Quantitative adjective(some, any, much,etc) + Noun
examples: some marvels, much wine, many wife
examples: some marvels, much wine, many wife
>Qualitative
adjective + Noun
is words that indicate the nature or circumstances of an object, such as: white, large,Important, harmless, etc.. examples: kind treatments, clear sky, underpaid works
Noun phrase with the formation Of
Of is used to merge the two nouns or noun phrases, which are in front of the noun is a partof or behind the noun belongs to OF and noun phrases to form a new whole; phrase this thing can still be connected with another of the phrases to infinity.
Example: the roof of the house
is words that indicate the nature or circumstances of an object, such as: white, large,Important, harmless, etc.. examples: kind treatments, clear sky, underpaid works
Noun phrase with the formation Of
Of is used to merge the two nouns or noun phrases, which are in front of the noun is a partof or behind the noun belongs to OF and noun phrases to form a new whole; phrase this thing can still be connected with another of the phrases to infinity.
Example: the roof of the house
