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Noun (Continuation)
Lesson two.

FUNCTIONS OF NOUN
Noun perform various functions in a sentence.
1. Noun functions as the subject  of a sentence. The subject of a sentence is who performs an action or who is being complimented.
Example:
I. Adegbite killed the goat.
Adegbite is a noun(name of a person). Adegbite is the subject of the sentence, the one, who performed the action in the sentence(he killed the goat)
The subject of a sentence answer to the who question?
Who killed the goat? 
Ans. Adegbite killed the goat.

2. Noun functions as the direct object of a sentence. The direct subject receives the action performed by the subject.
Example:
I. Adegbite broke a bowl
Bowl is a noun(name of thing). It received the action of the subject (it was broken).
The object of a sentence answer to the what question?
What was broken by Adegbite?
Ans. The bowl was broken by Adegbite.

3. Noun functions as an indirect object of a sentence. It is the one action is carried upon
Example:
Adegbite gave the book to Adekola.
The indirect object is the book, it was what an action was carried upon but not the receiver of the action.
It answer to the what question?
What was given to Adekola?
Ans. A book was given to Adekola.

4. Noun functions as the subject complement of a sentence.
Example:
I. Adegbite is a teacher.
A subject complement gives more information about the subject.
A teacher is complementing Adegbite, giving us more information about him.
Subject complement answer the who question?
Who is a teacher?
Ans. Adegbite is a teacher.

5. Noun functions as the object complement of a sentence. It gives more information about an object of a sentence.
Example:
I. Adegbite made Adekola, his personal assistant.
Adekola is the object, he is also the one who was made a personal assistant.
It answer the what question?
What was Adekola made?
Ans. He was made a personal assistant.

FEATURES OF A NOUN
1. A noun can be used before and after a verb in a noun.
Example:
Adegbite is a king.
Adegbite is a noun(name of a person), king is a noun(name of a position).

2. Noun can take plural ending. This is peculiar to countable nouns.
Examples: houses, cars, tables.
Noun has irregular plural forms.
I. The plural form with -s
Examples: Car - cars, house- houses.
II. The plural form with -es.
Examples: Bus- buses, box- boxes
III. The plural form that change to -ies.
Examples: Lorry - lorries, babies - babies.
IV. The plural form that change to -ves.
Examples: Wife - wives, knife - knives.
V. The plural form that changes some letters within.
Examples: Goose - geese, man - men.
VI. The foreign origin plural form.
Examples: Criterion - criteria, phenomenon - phenomena.
VII. Some have suffix -s and are irregular plural.
Examples: Shears, trousers.
VIII. Some nouns can be used as singular or plural, depending on the context of use.
Examples: Information, rice.
IX. Some nouns have same plural form.
Examples. Sheep-sheep, aircraft-aircraft

Note: Some word have -s and are regarded as singular.
Examples: News, measles.

3. A noun can indicate possessive form. This indicates ownership.
Examples: Ade's pencil, our family's garden.

4. A noun can follow a class of title I.e articles, modifiers, quantifiers.
Examples: An orange, the book, these houses.

I will be sharing with you wrong use of noun in our next lesson.

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