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
|
|
|
1 |
William |
California |
Table |
|
|
2 |
Paula |
Jakarta |
Chair |
Goodness |
|
3 |
Rita |
Park |
Noise |
|
|
4 |
Joanne |
Town |
Game |
|
|
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 |
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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