Comments on: Why do nouns exist? A writing teacher explains. https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/17/why-do-nouns-exist-a-writing-teacher-explains/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Idan https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/17/why-do-nouns-exist-a-writing-teacher-explains/#comment-867119 Idan Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:57:08 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5999#comment-867119 Steven Pinker, as usual, with a piece-of-bollocks definition for the average Joe that is completely wrong.

“simply a word that does nouny things; it is the kind of word that comes after an article, can have an ’s stuck onto it, and so on.”

So I suppose “green” is a noun in “the green banana”, since it comes after the article “the”.
And in “The boy who looked at me’s car”, “me” is a noun.

And so on…

]]> By: Chandrakant Kulkarni https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/08/17/why-do-nouns-exist-a-writing-teacher-explains/#comment-866879 Chandrakant Kulkarni Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:35:25 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5999#comment-866879 Noun is ‘Naam’ (नाम)in Sanskrit.

]]>