noun

A noun is one of the parts of speech, and a grammatical category. In the following phrases, nouns are printed in bold:

• The man stopped.
• John is nice.
• I hate school.
• He’s under that table.
• The dogs are hungry.
• a lovely afternoon
• She lives in Mexico.
• the way to learn a language
• I have two ideas.
• the purchase of a book
• the difficulty of the problem
• I don’t want to go to this meeting.
• He is an American.
• There are two possibilities.
• I have lost my credit card.

Other parts of speech include verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.