STEP NUMBER TWO

WHAT IS A NOUN

REFRESH AND REMEMBER

Remember, when the
world was very young and you thought that verbs were defined as ACTION words.

Eureka! You know better now.

So, whats a verb?

A verb is any word

that can be conjugated!

You can put a word into the following tenses:

Present: I walk Past: I walked Future: I will walk Present Perfect: I have walked Past Perfect: I had walked Future Perfect: I will have walked Continuous: I am walking

Are you ready?

I said, Are you ready!

OK, then here is step number two.

What is a noun?
If you are ready to answer: It is a person,
place, thing, or (if you read up on the grammatical phraseology), abstract idea.

Then you are using a definition that is

outdated, antiquated, and frankly . . .

WRONG
Well, maybe not wrong, but it is definitely
not useful. Consider this. If you need to find a noun in sentence to know if the verb is conjugated correctly, how can you do this if you do not recognize the word. Example: The succubi dripping blood through
the darkness is/are walking home.

What is a NOUN?

A noun is any word

that can pass the following tests:

THE TESTS
TEST NUMBER ONE TEST NUMBER TWO
A NOUN CAN TAKE A NOUN CAN BE
THE WORDS A, AN, OR THE BEFORE IT. MADE TO INDICATE MORE THAN ONE.

EXAMPLES
I WANT

A BOOK AN APPLE THE ANSWER TO THE MEANING OF LIFE MR. BLAIR; YOU ARE SO WISE YOU MUST KNOW IT.

MORE THAN ONE =

BOOK = BOOKS APPLE = APPLES MR. BLAIR = SORRY
THERE IS ONLY ONE MR. BLAIR THEN GOD BROKE THE MOLD.

Thus. . .
The succubi dripping blood through the darkness is/are walking home.
Now, what is the noun in this sentence. Well, succubus has the article the in front of it, so it must be a noun. And knowing what you known about singular and plural Latin endings. The i ending in succubi is plural. So . . . The succubi dripping blood through the darkness are walking home.