A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea.
Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn.
Late last year our neighbours bought a goat . Portia White was an opera singer . The bus 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 . A noun can function in a sentence as a subject , a direct object , an indirect object , a subject complement , an object complement , an appositive , an adjective or an adverb .