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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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