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*http://www.towson.edu/ows/nouns.htm | *http://www.towson.edu/ows/nouns.htm | ||
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*http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsANoun.htm | *http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsANoun.htm | ||
| + | *An Coitcheann Page on nouns: http://wikademy.wikispaces.com/Nouns | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 09:33, 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
- http://www.icalweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Nouns
- http://www.towson.edu/ows/nouns.htm
- http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsANoun.htm
- An Coitcheann Page on nouns: http://wikademy.wikispaces.com/Nouns
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.
