What is a Noun? A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn. The highlighted words in the following sentences are all nouns: Late last year our neighbours bought a goat . Portia White was an opera singer . The bus inspector looked at all the passengers' passes . According to Plutarch , the library at Alexandria was destroyed in 48 B.C. Philosophy is of little comfort to the starving . A noun can function in a sentence as a subject , a direct object , an indirect object , a subject complement , an object complement , an appositive , an adjective or an adverb . Noun Gender Many common nouns, like "engineer" or "teacher," can refer to men or women. Once, many English nouns would change form d...
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