What are the functions of a noun in a sentence?

Question

And pls. give the functions of the following words:
Subject
Direct object
Object of the preposition
Indirect object
Predicate noun
Appositive

Answer 1

Noun are people place or things.....they can be subjects in a sentence....ie someone or something does somehting..

the verb is the action or "does" part that a noun does.

for example

Mary eats a cake.

mary is the noun or thing ......eats is the verb... and cake is also a noun or thing......but cake is the direct object because it recieves or is affected directly by the verb.....

meaning that the cake is eaten....the second noun cake is the direct object because it is affected by the subject.


Indirect object is needed with a direct object....for example

Mary gave me the cake...

there is the direct object cake....but the indirect object is "me"...

meaning that Mary gives a cake....right.....but there is another noun there...me...........so i am the indirect object because the noun cake is the direct object.....

Sentences are made of subject and predicates.........


predicates include the verb and any other information after the subject noun....

so a predicate noun would be like the cake in my example...
mary subject.....eats the cake....predicate ...with the predicate noun being cake...


An appositive is a noun, noun phrase, or noun clause which follows a noun or pronoun and renames or describes the noun or pronoun. A simple appositive is an epithet like Alexander the Great. Appositives are often set off by commas.

for example....

We ate at Mary's house, who is cake chef.

Mary and the cake chef are the same person we just renamed her..

Answer 2

Noun is a name, place, thing. In a sentence, you are talking abt a noun.

Answer 3

A. "A quaint old boat" = subject "the river" = object of the preposition (preposition "down") "Sally's farm" = object of the preposition (preposition "near") B. "working hard" = object of the preposition (preposition "by") Note: "Working hard" is technically a gerund phrase, but since gerunds by definition function as nouns, it's the closest to a noun phrase in this sentence.

Answer 4

subject- noun talked about in a sentence

direct object- you ask 'what?' or 'who?' after the verb

object of the preposition- subject of the prepositional phrase being talk about

Indirect object- you ask 'for whom?', 'for whom?', 'to what?', 'to whom'? after the verb

appositive-noun that describes another noun before it

Answer 5

without nouns, we can't be in our own sentences. because we are nouns.