So, if you're trying to figure out whether or not a word is a noun, just apply this test. Now in that sentence, size is a noun, but it's not a physical thing, it's not a person, it's not a place, it's not something you can pick up. (high-pitched murmurs) The size of Raul's plumage was astounding. Dream is maybe a little tangible 'cause it's something you can imagine, but the idea of like a word like bigness. The reason I put in ideaĪs a fourth category is to get it stuff that you can't pick up. Relative pronouns, and they can sometimes behave like nouns, but I wouldn't call them nouns. Living being or a thing so we can say oh yes, penguin, Argentina incidentally is a country and the word country is also a noun because it is a thing. It's a kind of noun called a proper noun, just like Raul is but Now Argentina happens to be a place so therefore, it is also a noun. What is Raul? Well, Raul is a person or a living thing so we're just gonna say person so noun. So the test is, is it a person or a living thing, a place, a thing, or an idea? And if it's any of those things, then it falls into theĬategory of words in English which we call nouns. So, I wanna take these three sentences and find the noun in them using the test. Saying that they are, that nouns are people or living things, places, things, or ideas.
Make that a little bit sharper and expand that out by In traditional grammar is to say that a noun isĪ person, place or thing, which is fine, I think we can And I know that's not anĮspecially helpful definition, but we'll get more specific in a minute. Most sentences in EnglishĬontain at least one noun or a pronoun, but we'll We're gonna begin with the noun, the lovely wonderful noun,
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