Nouns are words that name objects, people or animals. For example, in the sentence “Billy walked home”, Billy is the noun.

Finding nouns in sentences

This section will give you some examples on how to find nouns in sentences. After that, you’ll get to try to find some nouns yourself. Here is the first example sentence:

The tortoise walked slowly across the room.

In this sentence, “tortoise” is the noun because it names an animal.

Chris tried to do his homework.

In this sentence, “Chris” is the noun because it names a person.