person or thing they refer to is male or female in biological factor analogical imagining. Finally, nouns also have
case, which names the role they play in a sentence
nominative for subjects or subject complements (predicate nouns, objectivecase for objects of
verbs, prepositions, and soon
possessive for ownership forms,
usually marked with an
apostrophe and s or just an apostrophe.
Nouns that are used as
names of individual things or people are called
“propernouns” and are usually capitalized to indicate their special function John “Mary,”
“Ivan,”
“Titanic,” Blue and Smith See capitalization.Nouns agree with verbs, pronouns,
adjectives, and other words when they need to
—when
plurals must match plurals, masculines must refer to masculines, feminines must refer to feminines, and soon. See
agreement. The
gerund (“ing” form) of verbs can function as nouns Swimming is relaxing.”
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