How can you recognize a noun?

Answer 1

A noun is a person, place, or thing: Person: John, Sally, Frank

Place: New York, Boston, Madrid

Thing: car, boat, ball An adjective is a word that describes the noun. a red ball

('red' is the adjective - it describes the noun 'ball') a good vacation

('good' is the adjective - it describes the noun 'vacation') an ugly woman

('ugly' is the adjective - it describes the noun 'woman')

Answer 2

A noun traditionally is a word acting as a name of a person, place, or thing. Things can include abstract concepts, or actions (gerunds, aka verbal nouns).

If a word is the subject or object in a sentence, it is a noun.

If a word is the object of a preposition, it is being used as a noun.

Answer 3

You can't make a noun an adjective per se; you can, however, use a noun as an adjective. This type of noun is called a noun adjunct.

For example:

The noun phrase "car door" is very common in our everyday lives. In that phrase, "door" is the head noun, and "car", a noun, is being used as an adjective to describe what kind of door it is.

Other examples:

Tennis ball

Tomato soup

Computer mouse

Robot Chicken

Answer 4

A predicate noun (predicate nominative) is the noun or a pronoun following a linking verb that restates or stands for the subject.

The predicate adjective (subject complement) is the adjective following a linking verb which describes the subject of the sentence.

In order to recognize a predicate noun or a predicate adjective, you must be able to recognize that a word is a noun, a pronoun, or an adjective; and you must be able to recognize a linking verb:

The easy way to recognize a linking verb is that a linking verb acts as an equals sign, the object is a form of the subject (Mary is my sister. Mary=sister); or the subject becomes the object (Mary's feet got wet. feet->wet).

The word 'sister' is a noun, functioning as a predicate noun; the word 'wet' is an adjective, functioning as a predicate adjective.

Answer 5

A noun is a person, place, or thing; an adjective is a word that describes a noun.

Example:

I have a wonderful mother. Mother is the noun and wonderful is the adjective describing mother.

Answer 6

It isn't as simple as changing something from a noun to an adjective. Some words are able to be changed quite easily, yet other aren't able to be changed.

Answer 7

a noun is a person,place, or thing. a verb shows action. An adjective would be a descriptive word that modifies the noun.