What are Nouns?

The simple definition is: a person, place or thing. Here are some examples:
•person: man, woman, teacher, John, Mary
•place: home, office, town, countryside, America
•thing: table, car, banana, money, music, love, dog, monkey
The problem with this definition is that it does not explain why "love" is a noun but can also be a verb.
Another (more complicated) way of recognizing a noun is by its:
1.Ending
2.Position
3.Function
1. Noun Ending
There are certain word endings that show that a word is a noun, for example:
•-ity > nationality
•-ment > appointment
•-ness > happiness
•-ation > relation
•-hood > childhood
But this is not true for the word endings of all nouns. For example, the noun "spoonful" ends in -ful, but the adjective "careful" also ends in -ful.
2. Position in Sentence
We can often recognise a noun by its position in the sentence.
Nouns often come after a determiner (a determiner is a word like a, an, the, this, my, such):
•a relief
•an afternoon
•the doctor
•this word
•my house
•such stupidity
Nouns often come after one or more adjectives:
•a great relief
•a peaceful afternoon
•the tall, Indian doctor
•this difficult word
•my brown and white house
•such crass stupidity
3. Function in a Sentence
Nouns have certain functions (jobs) in a sentence, for example:
•subject of verb: Doctors work hard.
•object of verb: He likes coffee.
•subject and object of verb: Teachers teach students.


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