NOUN in a Sentence

Learn NOUN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

13 example sentences for NOUN, such as:

1. There are many nouns in a dictionary.
2. Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
3. Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify.
4. In French the adjective must agree with the noun in number and gender.
5. Pronouns are often used to refer to a noun that has already been mentioned.

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 Meanings and Examples of NOUN
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noun
 n.  a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
Classic Sentence:
1  Then he asked Jack Lawton to decline the noun MARE and Jack Lawton stopped at the ablative singular and could not go on with the plural.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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Example Sentence:
1  Pronouns are often used to refer to a noun that has already been mentioned.
2  The word "water" can be used as a noun or a verb.
3  An example of a countable noun is 'table', and an example of an uncountable noun is 'money'.
4  The noun " mouse " is the singular form of " mice ".
5  It is a rule of English that adjectives generally precede the noun they modify: we say "a good cry", not "a cry good".
6  A text for students devoted seven pages to the use of a capital letter to indicate a proper noun.
7  The function of an adjective is to describe or add to the meaning of a noun.
8  Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify.
9  In French the adjective must agree with the noun in number and gender.
10  Words like "bag","dog","nurse","electricity", and "wood"are all nouns.
11  Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
12  There are many nouns in a dictionary.