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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 PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Peter Shaw, Jessica Hayden, and Zeneshia
Boyd
NOUNS
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What is a Noun?A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.
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Common NounsExamples
The boy read the book.
The bus driver drove the kids to school.
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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.
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Examples of Proper Nouns Zeneshia went to
Mt. Everest.
Jessica ordered pizza for everyone.
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Concrete Nouns Are nouns that are detected by the
senses.
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Examples of Concrete Nouns The dog licked the
ice cream off the floor.
This is my house.
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Abstract Nouns Are nouns that aren’t physical. They’re
sometimes called idea nouns.
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Examples of Abstract Nouns Honesty is a virtue.
You should always show respect to your elders.
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Collective Nouns A noun naming a group of things,
animals, or persons.
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Examples of Collective Nouns The class turned in
all their homework.
The flock of geese walked across the street.
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Countable Nouns A noun with both a singular and plural
form, and names anything (or anyone) that can count.
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Examples of Countable Nouns We painted the
chairs and table blue.
The tree lost three branches in the hurricane.
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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.
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Examples of Non-Countable Nouns
Oxygen is essential to humans.
We decided to sell the furniture rather than keep it.
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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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