what is the noun in the sentence, As he
turned to go, he spat speculatively.
There is no noun in that sentence.
Hello, Ms. Sue. There most definitely IS a noun - although it is a pronoun, it's still a noun - it's "he"!
Pronouns are not nouns. Pronouns take the place of nouns. The eight parts of speech are:
noun
pronoun
verb
adjective
adverb
preposition
conjunction
interjection
oh, yeah, right. oops! i forgot. boy, are you smart! :) (i guess b/c you're a teacher!!) :)
but yeah, couldn't you consider it to be a noun, if you're not counting pronouns? just wondering.
No. "He" is NOT a noun. "He" is always a pronoun. When a question asks about parts of speech, we must consider all of the parts of speech. We can't "not count" any of them.
To determine the noun in the sentence "As he turned to go, he spat speculatively," we need to identify the word in the sentence that is a person, place, thing, or idea and functions as the subject, object, or complement.
In this sentence, the noun is "spat." "Spat" is a verb that functions as a noun in this sentence. It acts as the object of the verb "he spat." In this context, "spat" refers to the action of forcefully expelling saliva or phlegm.
To find the noun, it is helpful to identify the verbs in the sentence first and then determine if any of them are used as nouns. In this case, "spat" is the verb that functions as a noun.