What are examples of nouns?

Answer 1

A noun is a word for a person, a place, or a thing. Examples are:

• ability
• absence
• Africa
• air
• anger
• animal
• answer
• Antarctica
• apple
• area
• back
• ball
• Barack Obama
• beginning
• board
• Bob
• book
• border
• bottom
• boundary
• bracelet
• bunny
• burger
• bus driver
• car
• carrot
• cat
• Celine Dion
• centre
• chair
• cheese
• city
• clown
• concept
• concrete
• cores
• courteousness
• danger
• darkness
• destruction
• diamond
• dog
• doll
• dress
• duck
• economy
• edge
• egg
• emptiness
• end
• energy
• example
• explosion
• farmer
• fire
• fish
• flash
• flesh
• flower
• force
• form
• front
• gap
• grape
• gravity
• green
• hat
• heat
• heater
• hole
• hope
• horse
• house
• idea
• instant
• interval
• invisibility
• James
• John
• joke
• jug
• kick
• kindness
• kite
• knife
• label
• lack
• lamp
• Las Vegas
• letter
• light
• lollipop
• Luxembourg
• macaroni
• magnetism
• mall
• mary
• McDonald's
• middle
• moment
• money
• movement
• Mumbai
• name
• neighbor
• noon
• noun
• opal
• orange
• ostrich
• outside
• Paris, France
• park
• pause
• pen
• pencil
• period
• person
• place
• point
• pom-pom
• question
• region
• seed
• side
• silence
• size
• slippers
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• surface
• sympathy
• symphony
• table
• things
• Titanic
• top
• uncle
• urgency
• value
• vase
• Vaseline
• walls
• Walmart
• Washington
• water
• Wisconsin
• wolf
• wood
• xylophone
• yellow
• yellowness
• zebra
• zest
• zoo
• zoologist

Note: nouns in all lower case are common nouns; words starting with capital letters are proper nouns.

Here are some examples of the many kinds of things nouns can label.

Physical objects:

* person, dog, house

Substances:

* water, air, concrete, wood

Names of people and places:

* John, Mary, Antarctica, Mumbai

Actions and events:

* a great kick, a relaxing swim, a tight squeeze, a loud explosion, the destruction of the city

Qualities:

* yellowness, courteousness, kindness

Abstract concepts:

* concept, noun, economy, sympathy

Forces and forms of energy:

* fire, light, heat, movement, gravity, magnetism

Points, surfaces and boundaries:

* point, surface, boundary, border, top, bottom, front, back, side, edge, middle, centre, area, region

* beginning, end, moment, instant, period, interval

Absences of things:

* absence, gap, hole, lack, darkness, silence, pause, emptiness, invisibility

Some examples of nouns are:

1. airplane
2. baby
3. carrot
4. dog
5. Egypt
6. fun
7. grandfather
8. Hawaii
9. ice
10. June
11. knee
12. lobster
13. Manchester
14. noun
15. Orville Wright
16. piano
17. quail
18. road
19. strength
20. toe
21. Uruguay
22. vacation
23. watermelon
24. Xerox Corporation
25. Yellowstone National Park
26. zither

A noun is a word for a person, a place, or a thing.

A noun functions as the subject of a sentence or a clause and the object of a verb or a preposition. Examples:

• Noun subject of sentence: Aunt Jane made cookies for Jack and Jill.
• Noun subject of clause: The cookies that Aunt Jane made are for Jack and Jill.
• Noun object of verb: Aunt Jane made cookies for Jack and Jill.
• Noun object of preposition: Aunt Jane made cookies for Jack and Jill.

A noun can function as a predicate nominative (subject complement), a noun or a pronoun following a linking verb that restates or stands for the subject.

• A noun as predicate nominative: Jack and Jill are twins.

A noun can functions as an object complement, a noun that follows and modifies or refers to a direct object.

• A noun as object complement: Jack and Jill love their aunt, Jane.

A noun can function as a noun of direct address, the name of or a noun for the person spoken to.

• A noun of direct address: Aunt Jane, may I have a cookie?

A noun can function as a possessive noun to indicate ownership, possession, origin or purpose.

• A possessive noun: Aunt Jane's cookies are the best.

A noun can function as an adjective to describe another noun, this is called an attributive noun. Example:

• Noun as adjective: Aunt Jane made almond cookies.

A noun is can function as a word to group other nouns, this is called a collective noun. Example:

• A collective noun: Aunt Jane made a batch of cookies.

A noun is a word for a person, a place, or a thing.

Example sentences (nouns in bold):

1. My brother is away. (person)
2. We can walk through the park. (place)
3. Would you like some pie? (thing)
4. My daughter takes ballet.
5. Mother made cookies for the party.
6. The car broke down on the bridge.
7. I come from Texas.
8. I'd like an apple please.
9. I saw the boy on his bicycle.
10. Dolls in pretty dresses lined the dresser.