Grammar Boot Camp

Nouns

Noun

A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.

Concrete Noun

A concrete noun is any noun that you can identify with your senses.

Ex. Hat, dog, girl, building, wind, sunshine

In other words, a concrete noun is a word that identifies a person, place, or thing by:

Touch Smell Sight

Abstract Noun

You cannot use your senses to identify an abstract noun. It is a word used to describe something you cannot feel, see, hear, or touch.

Emotions are an example of an abstract noun.

Ex. Happiness, sadness, joy, anger

Abstract Noun

Words used to identify thoughts or other activities that go on “inside” our heads are abstract nouns.

Ex. dream, nightmare, idea, thought

Common Suffixes

•age

•ance, ence

•dom

•ery, ry

•head, hood

•ism

•ion

•ity

•ness

•th

•tude

•ty

•ure

Common and Proper Nouns

Common nouns are words that identify general people, places, or things.

Proper nouns are names of specific people, places, or things.

Common and Proper Nouns

Person

This is a picture of a boy.

The word “boy” is a common noun that describes male children.

This is a picture of Mason.

“Mason” is a proper noun. Mason describes this boy only.

Common and Proper Nouns

Place

This is a building.

This is a university.

This is Harvard University.

A proper noun may be more than one word. All words need to be capitalized.

Common and Proper Nouns

Thing

This is a dog.

This dog is part Great Pyrenees.

This is Mandy.

Review

Noun:

•A person, place, thing, or idea

•A concrete noun can be identified by your senses.

•Abstract nouns are words that identify emotions or ideas.

•A common noun identifies general persons, places, or things

•A proper noun identifies a specific person, place or thing.

•A proper noun may be one or more words. All the words need to be capitalized.