in the sentence 'they accomodated to both the old and the young"...is the word 'young' a noun or adjective?

Question

and how do you know?

Thanks!

Answer 1

noun

Answer 2

It is a noun because it's the object of the prepositional phrase. The old and the young would be adjectives ONLY if they modified a noun. That is, if you had written the old man and the young woman. In this case, old and young would be adjectives because they DESCRIBE the nouns.

But, as it is written in your post, young is a noun.

Answer 3

It would be a noun because "young" names a person, place or thing. If the sentence said, "they accommodated both old and young people" then people would be the noun and old and young adjectives describing people.

Answer 4

In this sentence, the word young is noun. Because an article 'the' comes before the word young. Any article before a word indicates that the word is noun.

Answer 5

Young is used as a noun in this sentence

Answer 6

it's a noun because 'the' is in front of it. There should be a noun after the word for it to be an adjective.

Answer 7

Noun, it is not used as a descriptive word, but as a word that is the name of a group, there for a noun

Answer 8

is there a word after it like people? then it an adjective- but if not it a noun

Answer 9

It is a noun because it is the object of a prepositional phrase. Also, it refers to a group of people with a common attribute, not the attribute itself. You aren't saying that someone _IS_ young, you are refering to a group of people who _ARE_ young.

Also the word "to" is redundant. The sentence has the same meaning without it.

Answer 10

adjective because it is describing the noun.... people. old and young people.