Sep 24 2008
If you can see it, smell it, touch it, hear it, or taste it, it’s a noun, right?
Noun vs Verb (picture from Creative Commons)
Is it true that if you are using one of your five senses to observe something, that the something must be a noun? Hmm.
What about “think it”? What are your thoughts? Are they nouns? I can picture, right now, me swinging in a hammock on an island beach somewhere, eating a banana split–with pools of hot fudge, of course–enjoying the gentle breezes and dozing off into another dream. But, I am not there. The beach doesn’t exist except in my mind. Neither does the ice cream or fudge or breezes or ocean. But I can “see” them, they exist in my mind. So are these nouns, too? Hmm.
We will be getting into verbs next, but first check out the video below about nouns.
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