What do nouns do?
Nouns can do lots of things in sentences.
Let's look at some of the jobs noun
do:
1. Subjects are nouns that tell us who or what a sentence is about.
e.g. Maya kicked the ball.
2. Direct objects are nouns that receive the action of certain kinds of verbs (transitive active verb)
e.g. Maya kicked the ball.
3. Indirect objects are nouns that receive the direct object.
e.g. Mary kicked Joya the ball.
4. Objects of prepositions are nouns that come after prepositions in prepositional phrases.
e.g. Maya kicked the ball to Joya.
Exercise
Identify the function of the underlined nouns as indicated below:
subject direct object indirect object
object of preposition
1. The jury selected Rima as winner.
2. What is Jewel doing on his birthday?
3. Bipasha is my friend.
4. The committee elected Mahfuz its new Vice President.
