Question

Correct definition of noun is
A) It indicates some action
B) It indicates some quality
C) It is the name of place, animal or things
D) None of the above

Answer 1

Hint: In grammar, every word of the sentence is classified and in every word in a sentence have their own work. In each sentence, there is a subject and predicate part.

Complete answer:
 A noun is a name, place, animal, and things. A proper noun, a common noun, collective noun, abstract noun, countable noun, and uncountable noun are types known. Nouns work as subject or predicate. Example: Children went to school last Sunday. Here, children, school, and Sunday is a noun.
So the correct option is option (C).
Option (A): It indicates some action.
Words that indicate action are known as a verb or doing words. It is the main part of the predicate. Verbs and helping verbs help to know the tense of the sentence. Example: Ram is playing with the ball, here playing is the action or verb and is helping the verb. So option (A) is the wrong option.
Option (B): It indicates some quality
Words that express the quality of the subject are known as describing words or adjectives. Example: Sits is a clever girl. The clever explain what kind of girl Sita is, so in this clever is an adjective which expressing the quality of Sits. So option (B) is the wrong option.
Option (D): It is the wrong answer because the answer is option (C).

Note:
Proper noun: Noun that refers to a specific person, place, or things are called a proper noun.
Common noun: Common noun is a name given in common to every person or thing of the same class or kind.
Collective noun: Noun refers to the collection of a person or things are taken together. Example: crowd, herd, army
Abstract noun: Noun refers to a state, quality, action, or emotion considered apart from the object to which it belongs.
quality- goodness, kindness, darkness.Action: laughter, theft, movement. State: childhood, youth, sleep.