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parts of speech nouns

Husband and wife are nouns used as object complements in this sentence. Verbs that denote making, naming, or creating are often followed by object complements.
Proper nouns
It names a particular person, place, or thing. It is always capitalized. You always write it with a capital letter since the noun presents a specific person, place, or something. For example, the names of days of the week, months, historical documents, institutions, organizations, religions, holy texts, and adherents are proper nouns.
Examples: 

  • Cambodia is my beloved country.

  • Traveling to Japan is my wish.

  • My best friend, Kim Huey, has gone to the United States.Singular Nouns – A singular noun denotes only one person or things, such as a pen, a cow, a boy, or a set of chairs.

Plural Nouns – A plural noun is one that refers to more than one person or thing, such as pens, cows, boys, chairs, and so on.
Genders of Nouns 
Masculine – words that relate to a person’s, animal’s, or thing’s masculine classification, such as man, lion, moon, and so on.
Feminine – Nature, tigress, woman, and other nouns expressing a female class of a person, animal, or thing are examples of feminine nouns.
Neuter – nouns that signify a lifeless object, whether female or male, such as a pen, a room, or a book.
Cases of Nouns
The position of a noun in a sentence is controlled by its case classification. In English, there are five cases for nouns.3
When a noun expresses possession or possession, such as That is my dress, the possessive case is used. The possessive case is ‘my’.
When a noun is used to call anything, it is in the vocative case (to get attention). Managers are expecting you in the conference room, Ms. Amy. (Ms. Amy’s case is vocative.)
Dative Case – A noun is in the Dative case when it is the indirect object of a verb, for example, Stephen brought me apple pies (‘Me’ is in the dative case).
Nominative Case – A noun is regarded to be in the Nominative case if it is the subject of a verb. Adhi is a bright young kid.
When a noun is the main object of a verb or a preposition, it is said to be in the objective case. Please give the apples, for example. Some nouns, like humans, animals, and police, have singular meanings but are employed as plural nouns and always take plural verbs. 

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