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Traditionally a noun is seen as a person, place, or thing. Linguistics wise any word that can function as a subject or an object of a clause. Also, be analyzed by number, gender, case, countability.
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In traditional grammar, a noun is seen as a person, place, or thing. A more rigorous description is that a noun is any word that can function as a subject, a direct object or an object of a preposition. Nouns are typically inflected for number, gender, case, and countability.  
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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*http://www.icalweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Nouns
 
*http://www.icalweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Nouns
 
 
*http://www.towson.edu/ows/nouns.htm
 
*http://www.towson.edu/ows/nouns.htm
 
 
*http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsANoun.htm
 
*http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsANoun.htm
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*An Coitcheann Page on nouns: http://wikademy.wikispaces.com/Nouns
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Revision as of 08:33, 16 August 2011

In traditional grammar, a noun is seen as a person, place, or thing. A more rigorous description is that a noun is any word that can function as a subject, a direct object or an object of a preposition. Nouns are typically inflected for number, gender, case, and countability.

See Also

External Links

References

  • Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.
  • Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.