Question

What is the position and function of nouns?

Answer 1

Hint: A noun is a term that describes a person, a place, a thing or a thought.
Nouns can act as direct object, indirect object, complementary subject, complementary object, or adjective in a sentence or phrase.

Complete answer:
The work of a noun in a sentence, which performs any of the following five functions, is known as its grammatical function.
I) Subject of a verb : A noun functions as a subject of a verb when it falls under the phrase and goes before the principal verb of the phrase.
II) Object of a verb : A noun works like an object of a verb as it follows an action verb and it gets the verb action.
III) Complement of a verb : When a connecting verb or state verb occurs, a noun functions as a counterpart to a verb, which does not take any intervention from a verb.
IV) Object of a preposition : If a noun acts as the object of a preposition, it comes into a sentence after a preposition.
V) Be in opposition to another noun : By description, "apposition" means to put a noun next to an additional noun.

POSITION OF NOUNS
i) Subject - A subject has a verb to follow. Examples:– Ram sang a song at the wedding.
ii) Object -
a) Direct Object: he noun receiving the transitive verb action. Examples:– After dinner, I always serve a dessert.
b) Indirect object: The direct object precedes and can be identified by asking who the direct object got or what it received. Examples:– Harry sent her brother a postcard.
iii) Object of preposition: The preposition is followed by the noun.
Examples: – After the meal, we watch TV.
iv) Object of verbal : Verbal's are verbs used as other speech components such as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs. Examples:– They are the ones to win the game.

Predicate nominative: A noun that validates or stands for the subject after the link verb. Examples:– It became evil.
i) Appositive : It immediately follows the noun it represents.
Examples:– Muskan, my best friend, just visited Australia.
ii) Objective complement : It is immediately positioned after an object. The sentence is not finished without objective addition. Examples:– I consider you my brother.

Note:
- A noun's grammatical feature is somewhat similar to that of a pronoun.
- Note that pronouns are the same as names — a pronoun can also be put there, anywhere a substance is set and the substance can be eliminated.
- This is why grammars state that pronouns can fulfil all five grammatical roles of the substance as well.