The noun, as you may remember from your elementary English class, is a person, place, thing, or idea. ☛ person: Abraham, John, Matthew, Moses ☛ place: Nazareth, Bethlehem, Galilee ☛ thing: sickness, water, hand ☛ idea: truth, peace, fear Nouns, then, can name something that you can touch (a door, a person) or something you can only think about (truth, love). Nouns are the backbone of sentences. They are not what make sentences move along (that would be verbs), but they are what does the