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.