Hi ! What is a noun ????
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A noun can co-occur with an article or an attributive adjective. Verbs and adjectives cannot. In the following, an asterisk (*) in front of an example means that this example is ungrammatical.
the name (name is a noun: can co-occur with a definite article the.)
*the baptise (baptise is a verb: cannot co-occur with a definite article.)
constant circulation (circulation is a noun: can co-occur with the attributive adjective constant.)
*constant circulate (circulate is a verb: cannot co-occur with the attributive adjective constant.)
a fright (fright is a noun: can co-occur with the indefinite article a.)
*an afraid (afraid is an adjective: cannot co-occur with the article a.)
terrible fright (The noun fright can co-occur with the adjective terrible.)
*terrible afraid (The adjective afraid cannot co-occur with the adjective terrible.)
A noun (from Latin nōmen, literally meaning "name") is a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas. However, noun is not a semantic category, so that it cannot be characterized in terms of its meaning. Thus, actions and states of existence can also be expressed by verbs, qualities by adjectives, and places by adverbs. Linguistically, a noun is a member of a large, open part of speech whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.
Lexical categories (parts of speech) are defined in terms of the ways in which their members combine with other kinds of expressions. The syntactic rules for nouns differ from language to language. In English, nouns are those words which can occur with articles and attributive adjectives and can function as the head of a noun phrase.
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A noun is a naming word.It denotes the name of a person,place,thing or idea,etc