There is no noun. The subject is the pronoun "you."
The smelly old man shuffed along. The word old was already an adjective in your sentence. An adjective is a word that describes a noun. The noun being Man, and he is described as old and now Smelly.
In the sentence, horse is the only noun, and it is the subject of the sentence.
The noun is tree, a word for a thing.
In this sentence, I think 'horse' is the noun.
Examples of Adjective Noun patterns are: The football team is good. (Football is the Adjective in this sentence, but, it can also be a Noun.) <--- Example: The football was sticky. (Football is now a Noun in this sentence.) The green eyes scared me! (Green is the Adjective in this sentence, but, it can also be a Noun.) <--- Example: Green is my favorite color. (Green is now the Noun in this sentence.)
Old is relative.
The nouns in the sentence are:Elias (a proper noun)committeefile (or spindle file as a compound noun)
The only concrete noun in your sentence is sentence. Note: The noun 'sentence' is a concrete noun only for a written or spoken sentence; the noun 'sentence' as a word for a penalty imposed for a crime conviction is an abstract noun.
The word 'house' is a common noun, a general word for any house of any kind.The word 'old' is an adjective, a word used to describe a noun.The term 'old house' is a noun phrase, a group of words based on a noun that functions as a unit in a sentence as a noun.
The only concrete noun in your sentence is sentence. Note: The noun 'sentence' is a concrete noun only for a written or spoken sentence; the noun 'sentence' as a word for a penalty imposed for a crime conviction is an abstract noun.
Sewing machines is a compound noun. (The gerund sewing is acting as a noun adjunct.)
The noun "noun" is the subject of the sentence "A noun can be a person, place, or thing."