Nouns Part 2
Nouns in different positions in the sentence: 1.1. The noun as subject. 1.2. The noun as object. 1.3 The noun is the object of the prepositional phrase. 1.1. The noun as subject. A nouns is used as the subject of a sentence. Ex. a. Birds fly. "Birds" is a noun. It is the subject of the sentence. b. Karl is holding a pen. "Karl" is the noun and it is the subject of the sentence. 1.2. The noun as object. Nouns that received the action of the subject. The subject does the action. Action happens to the object . We use a noun for both the subject and the object in a sentence. An object can be a single-word noun (e.g., dog, goldfish, man), a pronoun (e.g., her, it, him), a noun phrase (e.g., the doggy in window, to eat our goldfish, a man about town). An object in a sentence is always a noun . An object in a sentence does nothing. The action happens to the object . Ex. Bob drives a truck. She gave a gift. We need a big