ENHANCEMENT COURSE Uses and Properties of Nouns

Uses of Nouns in sentences.
1. Subject of the sentence

 A noun that is used as the subject
 What is being talked about in a sentence
Example:
 Louise goes to school early.

 The girl dance gracefully.
 Mother works in the zoo.
2. Predicate Noun
 A noun that is usually after the linking verb
 renames, identifies or explains the subject in a sentence.
Example:
 The best part of my life is childhood.

 Marimar was a valedictorian.
 Jude is a teacher
3. Direct Object
 A noun that receives the action of the verb.
 It answers the question What? or Who?
Example:
 I like watermelon.
 Jack slammed the door.
 The robber killed the policeman.
4. Indirect Object
 A noun that receives the secondary action of the verb.
 tells to whom, to what, for whom or for what a thing is done.
Example:
 Romeo gave Juliet a flower.

 I wrote my Father a letter.
 Mama bought me a new dress.
5. Object of Preposition
 A noun that serves the object of preposition. (in, on, at, from, under, etc)
 answers the question What? or Whom? after the preposition.
Example:
 The children sat under the tree.

 The bus came from Pampanga.
 We stayed in the field.
6. Appositive
 Refers to a noun that identifies or provides further information about another word in the
sentence.
 Essential appositive makes the meaning of a sentence clear. It is usually not set off by a
comma.
 Non-essential appositive may be omitted in the sentence without changing the
meaning of it.
Example:
 My friend, an architect, has just arrived.

 Manila, the capital of Philippines, is a crowded city.
 Jose Rizal, a national hero, was born in Calamba.
7. Direct address
 A name or word used in directly addressing the person. It is set off by a comma.
Example:
 Doctor, the patient needs your immediate response.

 Joanne, clean your room now.
 Wake up, Mico.
8. Object complement
 adds to the meaning of or renames the direct object. It appears only with these
verbs: appoint, call, consider, declare, elect, judge, label, make, name, select or think.
Example:
 I named my dog, Granada.

 The class named the fish, Nemo.
 My mother is cooking Afritada.
PROPERTIES OF NOUNS
1. Gender
 Masculine Gender for words representing males:
Example: boy, man, duke, son.
 Feminine Gender for words representing females:

Example: Girl, woman, mother, daughter.
 Neuter Gender for inanimate objects:

Example: Table, book, umbrella, door.
 Common Gender for either sex

Example: Student, reader, cousin, friend.
2. Number
 Singular in number indicates one object only.
Examples: bus, girl, boy, town, stone, scissor.
 Plural in number indicates two or more objects. Most noun form their plural by adding -s or -es
Examples: bag-bags, tree-trees, glass-glasses, church-churches, pencil-pencils.
3. Case shows the relation of a noun to other words in the sentence or phrase.
 Nominative case indicates that a noun is doing or being something in the sentence. A noun in
the nominative case can be either a subject or predicate but not both in the sentence.
Examples:
 The lawyer argued with plausibility.
 The girl is a student
 Objective case indicates that a person or a thing is being acted upon. A noun in the objective
case can be use as object of the verb or object of the preposition.
Examples:
 The farmer built a fence.
 He drove across the country.
 Possessive case indicates that a person or a thing owns something. The possessive form of a
noun is usually formed by adding an apostrophe (') or an apostrophe s ('s).
 This is the teacher’s manuscript
 The mob occupied the city's square

4. Person property of a noun or a pronoun which distinguishes the speaker, the person spoken to, and the
person or object spoken of.
1. Speaking
The first person denotes the speaker.

“I, John, was in the isle that is called Patmos.”
“Many evils beset us mortals.”
2. Spoken to
The second person denotes the person addressed.

“James, be more careful.”
“Fellow-citizens, the crisis demands the utmost vigilance.”
3. Spoken of
The third person denotes the person or object spoken of.

“Milton was a poet.”
“Rome was an ocean of flame.”
“I am reading Tennyson’s Poems.”

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Uses of Nouns in sentences.

1. Subject of the sentence

 Louise goes to school early.

 The best part of my life is childhood.

 Romeo gave Juliet a flower.

 The children sat under the tree.

 My friend, an architect, has just arrived.

 Doctor, the patient needs your immediate response.

 I named my dog, Granada.

 Feminine Gender for words representing females:

 Neuter Gender for inanimate objects:

 Common Gender for either sex

The first person denotes the speaker.

The second person denotes the person addressed.

The third person denotes the person or object spoken of.

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