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Peter Shaw, Jessica Hayden, and Zeneshia Boyd. NOUNS. What is a Noun?. A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. Common Nouns. Examples The boy read the book. The bus driver drove the kids to school . Proper Nouns. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Peter Shaw, Jessica Hayden, and Zeneshia
Boyd
NOUNS
What is a Noun?A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
Common NounsExamples
The boy read the book.
The bus driver drove the kids to school.
Proper Nouns Are more specific than common nouns.
They refer to specific people, places, or things that are named. All proper nouns begin with capital letters.
Examples of Proper Nouns Zeneshia went to
Mt. Everest.
Jessica ordered pizza for everyone.
Concrete Nouns Are nouns that are detected by the
senses.
Examples of Concrete Nouns The dog licked the
ice cream off the floor.
This is my house.
Abstract Nouns Are nouns that aren’t physical. They’re
sometimes called idea nouns.
Examples of Abstract Nouns Honesty is a virtue.
You should always show respect to your elders.
Collective Nouns A noun naming a group of things,
animals, or persons.
Examples of Collective Nouns The class turned in
all their homework.
The flock of geese walked across the street.
Countable Nouns A noun with both a singular and plural
form, and names anything (or anyone) that can count.
Examples of Countable Nouns We painted the
chairs and table blue.
The tree lost three branches in the hurricane.
Non-Countable Nouns A noun which does not have a plural
form, and which refers to something that you could (or would) not usually count.
Examples of Non-Countable Nouns
Oxygen is essential to humans.
We decided to sell the furniture rather than keep it.
The common noun. Robin L. Simmons,1997. web. 4 October 2012. <http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/nouns.html>
What is a noun?. Heather MacFadyen, n.d. web. 4 October 2012.
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