Analysis of nouns according to their types and functions in the novel “The quiet American” by Graham Greene

We are going to analyze them in the sentences according to their morphological and syntactical characteristics.

• 1)    After dinner I sat and waited for Pyle in my room over the Catinat: he had said. “I'll be with you at latest by ten”, and when midnight had struck. I couldn't stay quiet any longer and went down into the street .

• 2)    Of course, I told myself, he might have been detained for some reason at the American Legation , but surely in that case he would have telephoned to the restaurant -he was very meticulous about small courtesies .

• 3)    A lot of old women in black trousers squatted on the landing: it was February and I suppose too hot for them in bed. One trishaw driver pedalled slowly by towards the river -front and I could see lamps burning where they had disembarked the new American planes .

• 4)    The police might pick you up.

• 5)    I thought of several ironic and unpleasant jests I might make, but neither her English nor her French would have been good enough for her to understand the irony , and, strange to say, I had no desire to hurt her or even to hurt myself.

• 6)    I turned to go in- doors when I saw a girl waiting in the next doorway .

• 7)    It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France . A man 's sexual capacity might be injured by smoking ,

but they would always prefer a faithful to a potent lover . Now she was kneading the little ball of hot paste on the convex margin of the bowl and I could smell the opium. There is no smell like it.

• 8)    She got quickly up, shaking the yellow tree so that it showered its petals again over my typewriter.

• 9)    “Was that a grenade ?” he asked with excitement and hope. “Most likely the exhaust of a car ”, I said, and was suddenly sorry for his disappointment.

• 10)    They pulled him out like a tray of ice-cubes , and I looked at him. The wounds were frozen into placidity . I said, “You see, they don't open”. My presence “ Comment ?”

• 11)    “You can't help us at all?” Vigot asked. “Not at all”. I walked back with Phuong towards my flat : I was no longer on my dignity . Death takes. Away vanity -even the vanity of the cuckold who mustn't show his pain.

• 13)    I was a correspondent : I thought in headlines. “American official murdered in Saigon ”. Working on a newspaper one does not learn the way to break bad news , and even now I had to think of my paper and to ask her.

• 14)    Somebody important must have been arriving from Europe by air , for there was a policeman facing the pavement every twenty yards along the route to the High Commissioner 's Residence.

• 15)    I went across to the bookcase and examined the two rows of books -Pyle's library . The Advance of Red China , The Challenge to Democracy .

• 16)    “I'm sorry”, I said. “ Death takes people in different ways ”. Perhaps he had really loved Pyle. "What did you say in your cable ?" I asked.

• 17)    He made a noisy show of pulling out chairs and calling for the waiter , though all that activity could possibly produce at the Continental was a choice of beer , brandy -and- soda or vermouth cassis .

• 18)    Great victory North-west of Hanoi . French recapture two villages they never told us they'd lost. Heavy Vietminh casualties . Haven't been able to count their own yet but let us know in a week or two.

For ex. Victory is an abstract noun, singular, in the nominative case, it is a subject in the sentence. North-west is a common noun, singular in the genitive case. It is a subject in the sentence. Hanoi is a proper noun, in the genitive case. It is a predicate in the sentence. Villages is a common noun, plural, in the objective case. It is an object in the sentence. Vietminh is a proper noun, in the nominative case . It is a subject in the sentence. Casualties is a common noun, plural (casuality) it ends in -y preceded by a consonant, y is changed into -i before -es. It is a predicate in the sentence. Week is a common noun, singular, in the nominative case. It is an adverbial modifier in the sentence.

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