What is/are the noun(s) in the following sentence?: The waves are crashing against the dock.

3 Answers
Mar 8, 2018

See explanation.

Explanation:

The given sentence has 2 nouns:

  1. waves is the subject of the sentence

  2. dock is a part of prepositional phrase against the dock

Mar 8, 2018

The #color(red)("waves")# are crashing against the #color(red)("dock")#.

Explanation:

waves and dock are words used to identify a person or thing(s) (i.e. they are "nouns")

Mar 8, 2018

#waves#
and
#dock#

Explanation:

A noun by definition is a person, place, or thing. Let's try to identify them in the sentence

The waves are crashing against the dock.

What are #waves#?

In this sentence, the word, #the# is used in front of #waves#, which means that #waves# is an object being described in the sentence. An object qualifies as a "thing", so the word #waves# is a noun.

What is a #dock#?

Same as with the word #waves#, #the# is used before #dock#, meaning that #dock# is an object/thing being described.