We went 2 the lake 2 swim.
The nouns in the sentence are summer and lake.
lake antario
Joe went swimming in a lake.
"alongside the lake"
i like to jog around the lake
There are two golf courses both overlooking the lake.
"between the lake and the short road" is the prepositional phrase in the sentence. It starts with the preposition "between" and includes the objects of the preposition, "the lake" and "the short road."
lake
The site of the lake was extraordinary.
No, it is a complete sentence. It has a subject and predicate, where vacationing is a gerund (noun, object) with an adjective phrase "at the lake."
In the sentence "We visited the lake," the word "the" is an article and "lake" is a noun.
Lake would not be capitalized unless it begins a sentence, as in this sentence. Or if it is part of the name of a lake such as the Great Lakes.