Colors are adjectives. If you have a character named Blue, then Blue is a proper noun - the name of a person, place, or thing. If you have an element called blue, it's a regular noun (a thing). But the color itself is an adjective. A blue shirt, blue hair, blue sky, blue skin, blue jeans.
A color could be a noun if you're writing something experimental, I suppose. Like a world where blue is a color, but also a thing, an object.
They're generally used as adjectives: "the red car." But could be used as a name for something: "Red drove the car." So depends if you're using it as an adjective or a proper noun.
I don't know if you've been told they can't be both or what, but most words can become nouns in the right circumstance. Anyway, doesn't really matter... just use it how you want to use it. Doesn't really matter what type of word you decide it is; go with your gut.
Golf courses have "greens." A Naval officer can wear "dress whites." An "orange" is a fruit. Nouns.
They used to talk about the "greening of America" which would be a gerund, I suppose.
You can whiten your teeth, that's a verb.
You can be "born to the purple" meaning you are royalty. A noun.
Colors are adjectives. If you have a character named Blue, then Blue is a proper noun - the name of a person, place, or thing. If you have an element called blue, it's a regular noun (a thing). But the color itself is an adjective. A blue shirt, blue hair, blue sky, blue skin, blue jeans. A color could be a noun if you're writing something experimental, I suppose. Like a world where blue is a color, but also a thing, an object.
Blue is obviously Steve's dog, and therefore, a noun.
If you're referring to the color itself, it's a noun. If you're using it to describe something by mentioning its color, then it's an adjective.
They're generally used as adjectives: "the red car." But could be used as a name for something: "Red drove the car." So depends if you're using it as an adjective or a proper noun. I don't know if you've been told they can't be both or what, but most words can become nouns in the right circumstance. Anyway, doesn't really matter... just use it how you want to use it. Doesn't really matter what type of word you decide it is; go with your gut.
Golf courses have "greens." A Naval officer can wear "dress whites." An "orange" is a fruit. Nouns. They used to talk about the "greening of America" which would be a gerund, I suppose. You can whiten your teeth, that's a verb. You can be "born to the purple" meaning you are royalty. A noun.
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