How do nouns and pronouns function in a sentence ?
Answers
Question:
How do nouns function in a sentence?
Answer:
Noun acts as the subject of a sentence that performs the action of the verb. Nouns are basic to sentence structure because they, along with pronouns, provide the subject of the sentence.
In addition, a noun functions as a direct object of a verb, an indirect object of a verb, object of a preposition, or a
complement.
Examples:
- The man stepped on my toes.
- The car smashed into a wall.
- Both of them fell down the stairs.
- I accidentally hit my head on the
bookshelf.
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Question:
How do pronouns function in a sentence?
Answer:
By definition a pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun or a noun phrase.
Pronouns therefore take the positions of nouns in sentences.
For example:
Instead of saying: “Peter is the thief”,
I can replace the noun “Peter” with the pronoun “he”
and
form the sentence like this: “He is the
thief”.
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