Answer to Question #249538 in English for zusa

Question

what is a noun

Answer 1

A noun is the part of speech that refers to a thing, a person, an animal, a place, a quality, an idea or an action. in a sentence, it plays the role of subject, direct object, indirect object, subject complement, object complement, appositive or adjective. Distinctively, a noun can be the specific name of a person, place or thing (proper noun), and is always capitalized e.g. Albert Einstein. It can also be the generic name of an item in a class or group and is not capitalized unless appearing at the beginning of a sentence e.g. girl.