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Nouns
Nouns
noun
Words that name people, places, things,
events or ideas
Countable Uncountable
Mass Collective
Compound
Common Proper
these name general, name specific people,
nonspecific people, places, things, or ideas
places, things, or ideas always start with a
start with a lowercase
letter unless they begin
capital letter
a sentence Ex: Victor Hugo, Paris,
Ex: writer, city, park, Disneyland,Christianity
religion
Concrete
name something that Abstract
you can perceive with name something that
your five senses - you cannot perceive
with your five senses -
something that something that does not
physically exists physically exist
ex: cat, chocolate, Ex: happiness, freedom,
Martha Christianity
Countable
can be counted, and Uncountable
cannot be counted
they use both the
only use the singular
singular and the form
plural forms Ex: milk, rice, water
Ex:clock/clocks,
David/Davids,
poem/poems
Collective Mass
Names a group of Cannot be broken up
persons or things into member parts
ex: class, family, Ex:
council cavan/sacks/grains of
rice,
Compound
made up of two or more smaller
words
Ex: tablecloth, haircut, applesauce,
editor-in-chief, mother-in-law
ABSTRACTION
Name it in a Snap!
TASK:
Each sentence below contains two or more nouns. Underline the nouns
and then indicate to what category each belongs.
1. Does Jimmy really want to move to California?
2. An impolite fish asked my brother for a worm.
3. Amy will travel to Norway and Sweden.
4. Which is larger, Microsoft or Intel?
5. Cats are very valuable helpers on a farm.
6. My grandfather wasn’t allowed in that diner because of his strange habits.
7. Cassy, Samantha, and David are playing outside.
8. Happiness is a feeling that is hard to describe.
9. Her smile became a frown as she noticed the tiny insects crawling out of
her sandwich.
10. The Giants will not play the Cubs in Orlando.
HOMEWORK: