A noun is typically precedable by an adjective or a determiner.

Everybody is so concerned for the public, that all private enjoyments are lost or disrelished

Sometimes one of those children that the others dare not argue with points to an old lady, one of the many who live in the rows of old brick cottages between the church and the main streets of the city, and calls out – old Blue Nancy with blowflies in her pantsie, and starts to run as if the woman is chasing him.

He needs only to concentrate and to dive in practice, to become a still far better boardsman.