Nouns

Review

Nouns

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

Examples

• Person: people• Can be in general or

specific people.

• Aunts, uncles, golfer, shopkeeper, musician, Uncle Joe

Place

• Can be general or specific:

• Forest, school, house• Shenandoah National

Forest, Briar Woods High School, White House

Thing

• Can be any things.

• Chair, door, pencil, car, yard, dog, cat, water

Idea/Quality

• Examples of ideas (these are not something you can touch, but they still exist):

• Hunger, jealousy, hope, happiness, sad, freedom, pride

Concrete vs. Abstract• Nouns can be classified into

two type: concrete and abstract.

• Concrete nouns are words that can be touched or seen (think like the word says – you can touch concrete) chairs, dog, etc.

• Abstract nouns are words that have no physical body, such as ideals (hope, freedom, pride)

Common and Proper nouns• Common nouns are run

of the mill normal nouns that name unspecific items: such as table, dog, house, yard.

• Proper nouns name something specific and are usually capitalized with use: White House, Uncle Joe, Washington, D.C., Briar Woods High School.

Count vs. noncount nouns

• Count nouns are nouns that can have a quantity added to them. Dogs, cats, pencils, phones.

• Non count nouns are nouns who don’t have a quantity. Software, deer, music, heat. (You don’t add an “s” to these).

Collective Nouns

• Nouns that signify a group of some kind:

• Herd of deer, acting troupe, murder of crows, track team, flock of geese

Assignments

• Worksheet packet next (YAY)

• Quiz on nouns (need to know definitions and how to pick out examples) on Thursday.