NOUNS.
Nouns are varied by Person, Number, Gender, and Case.
Person is that relation existing between the speaker, those addressed and the
subject under consideration, whether by discourse or correspondence. The
Persons are First, Second and Third and they represent
respectively the speaker, the person addressed and the person or thing
mentioned or under consideration.
1. In the more simple
state of the Arabs, the nation is free, because each of
her sons disdains a base submission to the will of a
master.—Gibbon.
Name words
By examining this sentence we notice several words used as
names. The plainest name is Arabs, which belongs to a people; but,
besides this one, the words sons and master name objects, and may
belong to any of those objects. The words state, submission, and
will are evidently names of a different kind, as they stand for ideas,
not objects; and the word nation stands for a whole group.
When the meaning of each of these words has once been
understood, the word naming it will always call up the thing or idea itself.
Such words are called nouns.
Definition.
2. A noun is a name word,
representing directly to the mind an object, substance, or idea.
Classes of nouns.
3. Nouns are classified as
follows:—
(1) Proper.
(2) Common. (a) CLASS
NAMES: i. Individual.
ii.
Collective.
(b)
MATERIAL.
(3) Abstract. (a) ATTRIBUTE.
(b) VERBAL
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