NOUNS AND NOUN PHRASES

What is a Concrete Noun?

A tangible entity like a house, pencil, mom.

What is an open lexical category?

nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Also called form classes, main parts of speech, or content categories.

What is a Proper noun?

A very specific entity like The White House, Bowie State University.

Other types of nouns?

Animate/inanimate, human/nonhuman, count/noncount, and collective nouns.

What are the different types of nouns?

Common, Proper, Concrete, and Abstract nouns.

What are the two groups of Parts of Speech?

Open Lexical categories and closed lexical categories.

What is a subject compliment?

a noun, adjective, or pronoun that follows an axillary verb to describe or rename the subject. Example: That clock is a HUGE CLOCk.

What is a noun phrase?

a phrase that is formed when nouns team up with other parts of speech like determiners, adjectives, etc. NPs usually fill the subject space.

What is a closed lexical category?

determiners, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, interjections, and particles. Also called function classes or minor parts of speech.

What is an object of a preposition?

nouns or pronouns that follow a preposition in a sentence. Example: The cost of THE WATCH was expensive.

What are some examples of Noun Morphological Frames?

plural(-s), possessive('s), -er/or (one who), -ion, and -ness.

What is Morphological Frame?

refers to the form of a noun and other open lexical categories including prefixes and suffixes and their meanings.

What are some examples of Syntactic Frames for Nouns?

the/a/an, any verb object, subject verb, and prepositions.

What is a subject?

who or what the sentence is about. Example: THE CLOCK is ticking.

What is an indirect object?

who or whatever is receiving the direct object. Example: He gave HIS BROTHER the watch.

What are gerunds?

words that end in -ing that are typically occupied by nouns like "Walking a mile is everyday is healthy."

What is a determinant?

words that precede a noun such as articles, numbers, possessive pronouns, etc.

What is an Abstract noun?

A nontangible entity like ideas, thoughts, emotions, intelligence.

What is a Common noun?

A general state of things in a broad category like cat, house, professor.

What about Nouns?

A noun is one of the main four parts of speech that carries meaning. It tells us "who" or "what" in a sentence.

What does every phrase category have?

a head or the main word.

What is an appositive?

a noun phrase that comes after another noun phrase providing more information about the preceding noun phrase. Example: The watch, a Rolex, cost a lot of money.

What is an Object compliment?

a word (usually a noun or an adjective) that renames the direct object or states what it has become. Example: I can make Ashley available.

What is a direct object?

a word or that receives the action of the verb. Example: He took THE PHONE with him.

What is an adjective?

a word that modifies a noun or pronoun. Example: The teacher shared some IMPORTANT news.