Part of Speech: Noun

Definition: a person, place, thing or an idea

Persons

Carpenter, tourists, team, cousins, Eli Manning

Places

Cities, theatres, forest, neighborhood, Houston

Things

Merry-go-round, baseball bat, birds, Liberty Bell

Ideas

Justice, creativity, self-control, opinions, Buddhism

Two Types of Nouns

Common: name any one of a group of persons, places, things or ideas

i.e.: woman, nation, event, holiday, language

Proper: Names a particular person, place thing or idea (capitalized)

ie: Laura Bush, Egypt, French revolution, Fourth of July, Latin

Concrete and abstract

Concrete Noun: name a person, place, thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses

Abstract noun: name of an idea, feeling quality or a characteristic

Collective nouns

In the singular form, name of a group

ie: jury, band, family, class, flock, committee

Compound Noun

Consists of two or more words that together name a person, place, thing or an idea

ie: single word: stairway, bookcase, toenail, Newfoundland

Separate word: Ceiling fan, blue jay, baseball batHyphenated Words: sister-in-law, great-uncle, stick-

in-the-mud

Pronouns

Takes the place of one or more nouns or pronouns

*More on this later*

Verb

Expresses action or a state of being

Main verbHelping verb

Helping verb

Forms of BeForms of HaveForms of Do

Modals (can, could may, might, must, should, would, will)

Modal: Helping verb that is joined with a main verb to express an attitude such as necessity or

possibility

Action & Linking

Action verb: expresses either physical or mental activity

Linking verb: connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject.