Concepts Of Noun Essay

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2.2 Concept The concept of the study consists of several parts which each part is based on general ideas proposed and stated by experts.
2.2.1 Concept of Noun
Noun is a very large class of words which refer to entities (person, things, substances, places, and abstraction of various kinds) according to Leech in his book entitled Introducing English Grammar (1992:75). Noun can be considered as the most important word class since every language has its own noun. Its function in a sentence can be represented as a subject, a direct or indirect object, a subject or object complement, an appositive, an adjective, or an adverb. In grammar, a noun may take place as head of noun phrase, the important word in indicating the subject or object of a verb. Nouns are subdivided into the following major categories:
a. Common noun: a noun which describes person, place, or thing in general. e.g. boy, woman, man, teacher, student, girl, etc.
b. Proper noun: a noun which …show more content…

[(We) (have bought) NP(the house)]
S P O
3. [(This) (must be) NP(the house)]
S P O
Some kinds of (e.g. some NP of time) can act as adverbial (A):
4. [(We) (walked) NP(five miles) NP(last week)] S P A A
A subject of a sentence is an important structural element. It plays a crucial role in many grammatical processes. Various interpretations have grown up around the subject notion. These resolved themselves into three board definitions, which could be summarized as follow:
a. That which is the concern of the massage
b. That of which something is being predicated (i.e. on which rest the truth of the argument)
c. The doer of the action
Subject can also be defined as the 'psychological subject', 'grammatical subject', and 'logical subject'
Psychological subject meant 'that which is the concern of the message'. It was called the psychological because it was what the speaker had in his mind to start with, when embarking on the production of the

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