A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. Abstract ideas exist as thoughts in mind, and are not related to physical objects or real events and actions. Later in the chapter we shall be discussing a noun called ‘abstract nouns’.
Nouns are generally the primary words which you first learn in English. The coloured words indicated in the following sentences are all nouns: A word or group of words used for referring to a person, thing, place, or quality, ‘father’, ‘chair’, ‘Los Angeles’, and ‘peace of mind’ all are nouns.
Late last month my father bought a pet dog.
Neil Diamond was a singer.
The train inspector looked at all the passengers' passes.
According to Plutarch, the library at Alexandria was destroyed in 48 B.C.
Philosophy is of little comfort to the starving.
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