Is the word ""that"" a noun when used to end a question?
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yes like
You are not to suppose that .
in this that is used as an noun
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We'll start with something basic. This is a biggie, because almost every sentence has one: the subject. It's the word or phrase that performs the action in a sentence. ("Action" here is being used loosely; many sentences have nothing we'd typically call "action." Another way of putting it is that the subject is the word or phrase that does the "doing" or "being" in a sentence, whatever that doing or being may be.) To get all grammar-splainy here, subjects are technically nouns, noun phrases, or pronouns. Here are some subjects being subjects, but in bold:
I hear yodeling.
The yodeling is coming from over there.
Information about grammar can apparently be yodeled.
Those grammarians are excellent yodelers.
There is another yodeling grammarian.
We are surrounded by yodeling grammarians.
Help.
Note that the subject usually comes first. In the fifth sentence, though, it comes after the verb is. This is because the there at the beginning of the sentence is really just a place holder.
Note too that not every sentence has a visible subject. In the last sentence, there is an understood (and, in this case, desperately hoped-for) subject that is "you" (or "someone" or "anyone").
Predicate
"I had a dream about those yodeling grammarians last night."
The word predicate has two grammar-related meanings. One is simple, and that's the one we're treating here. Predicates are usually everything in a sentence or clause that's not the subject. (A clause is a part of a sentence that has its own subject and verb.) They express what is said of the subject, and usually consist of a verb and other stuff that's not the subject. Here are some predicates in bold:
I had a dream about those yodeling grammarians last night.
People who are not grammarians yodel too, but I don't dream about them.
Here come yet more yodeling grammarians.
Please don't yodel anymore, grammarians.
The predicate is often much bigger than the subject. As the second sentence shows, though, it can be smaller. If clauses are joined by a conjunction like but, or, and, or although, the conjunction isn't part of the predicate.
Noun and Verb
'Grammarian' is a noun. 'Sleep' is a verb. And you should let sleeping grammarians lie.
If you're interested enough in grammar to have made it this far, you likely feel pretty confident about your understanding of what nouns and verbs are. Both are super important, though, so we'll review them here anyway.