Okay, so if you said: I eat my dinner at night, would 'night' be a noun?
2007-09-16 15:21:10 · 5 answers · asked by Bob R. 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Yes, night is a noun there.
2007-09-16 17:43:22 · answer #1 · answered by Earthling 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think your confusion may be because the phrase "at night" is a MODIFYING phrase (not adjectival --which would modify a noun, but adverbial, modifying the verb/action)
"night" IS a noun here, though it does not FUNCTION in the sentence as subject or object, as nouns most often do
"at night" (the noun + the preposition "at") functions as an 'adverb of time', modifying that verb, that is, telling you something about when the action (eating) is done
Note the distinction between 'part of speech' and how a word or phrase functions in a sentence
I - pronoun =subject of sentence
eat - verb
my dinner - pronoun (my) + noun (dinner) = object
at night - prepositional phrase ('at' -preposition + 'night' -noun) =adverb of time
2007-09-17 23:25:29 · answer #2 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's a noun. (the night)
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2007-09-16 16:26:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
at night would be adverb of time. and with 'at' it would be a prepositional phrase
the only noun in this sentence is 'dinner'
2007-09-17 00:45:26 · answer #4 · answered by Judy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
noun.
2007-09-16 15:28:58 · answer #5 · answered by Fly girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋