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What is the role of a noun?

Any grammar book will tell you that in the sentences, “Jogging is fun.” & “It is fun to jog.” the words “jogging” and “jog” act as nouns despite appearing to behave as actions(verbs) in the sentence. In what way are they functioning as nouns?

I notice that “Jogging” is the simple subject in the first sentence, and “to jog” is the simple predicate. Is the role of a noun a simple subject or simple predicate? If so, wouldn’t a better definition of noun be “a simple subject or simple predicate” rather than “a person, place, or thing”?

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Mr. Bad Example

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In the first sentence, “jogging” is functioning as a noun because it appears before the verb (English has, generally speaking, a subject-verb-object word order) and there’s an adjectival subject complement–“fun”–after the verb, which modifies “jogging”.

You’ve misanalyzed your second sentence–the simple predicate is “is”. The infinitive “to jog” is functioning as a noun, but this case is a little trickier because it’s one of *two* subject complements. The first complement is the same adjectival one from the other sentence (“fun”), and the second is a nominal subject complement (“to jog”) that renames the subject–“it”.

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smartobees
The first grader would have to then ask what is a subject or what is a predicate and you would have to answer a person, place or thing or anything that can takes its place in a sentence.
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Anj
noun..

noun is simply a word used to name a person, palce, things, state or quality.

nou can act as a subject, predicate and both.

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~p~
a noun isn’t just a person, place or thing.

it’s more like a name for ANYTHING.

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