Nouns.
Cork |
Clouds |
+Model+.—Wood + floats or float.
Ships |
Boys |
Such expressions as Cork floats are sentences, and the nouns cork, ship, etc., are the subjects. You will find that +every subject+ is a +noun+ or some word or words used for a noun.
Be prepared to analyze and parse the sentences which you have made. Naming the class to which a word belongs is the first step in parsing.
+Model for Analysis+.—This is a sentence, because ——-; cork is the subject, because ——-; floats is the predicate, because ——-.
+Parsing+.—Cork is a noun, because it is the name of a thing—the bark of a tree.
LESSON 15.
Select and write all the nouns in the sentences given in Lessons 28, 31, 34.
Tell why they are nouns.
In writing the nouns, observe the following rule.
+CAPITAL LETTER—RULE.—Every proper or individual name must begin with a capital letter+.