PARTS OF SPEECH

I. NOUN
I.1. DEFINITION
A noun is a word which is used to represent a person, place, quality, thing,
action, idea, occurance, and can function as the subject os a sentence or as
the object of a verb, the object of a preposition , or as an appositive.
The examples from the above definition are as follows :
a. Person
Each underlined word in the following sentences is a noun related to
people and function as a subject or as an object of a sentence.
. !adine is a medical doctor.
". A police captured a smuggler yesterday.
#. $tudents are studying.
%. &other and farher want the nurse to stay home.
'. (acob and &ary have two children.
b. Places
)laces may refer to all *inds of places, including common name, such as
city, island, earth, mount, river, office, house, sea, planet, etc, and proper
noun such as +ali, (apan, $umatra, Australia, !ew ,or*, England, Everest,
-ed $ea, Atlantic, .enus, /ilton /otel, etc.
Each of underlined words in the following sentences is a noun related to a
place and function as a subject or as an object of a sentence.
. +ali is one of the famous tourist destination in 0ndonesia.
". &y office is at $umitomo +uilding on (alan $udirman, (a*arta.
#. (a*arta is the largest city of 0ndonesia.
%. There is a swimming pool next to the beach.
'. America is the richest country in the world.
c. Things
Things include something that substantively exist whether it is solid or
liquid such as animal, sugar, oil, water, sand, tree, car, food, etc., many
*ind of gasses such as smi*e, air, steam, etc., and something which
substantively doesn1t exist but it is conceptually understood and has a
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particular quality such as ideology, religion, dream, behavior, concept,
feeling, expectation, sound, truth, appearance, news, profession, etc.
Each of underlined words in the following sentences is a noun related to
substantive things or unsubstantive things and can be used as a subject or
as an object of a sentence.
. $ugar is one of the sources of carbohydrate.
". &ost of Asian countries use rice as their staple food.
#. 2e need a car to lift this furniture to our new house.
%. The gas of this liquid is flammable.
'. 2ater will realease steam if it is being boiled.
The examples of nouns related to the un3substantive things but
conceptually understood is as follows :
1. The ideology of our movement is based on the universal human right.
2. Truth was the basic of the verdict made by the jury.
3. 0t is a good idea to follow his advice.
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