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Peter Shaw, Jessica Hayden, and Zeneshia Boyd

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.

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Peter Shaw, Jessica Hayden, and Zeneshia Boyd

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  1. Peter Shaw, Jessica Hayden, and Zeneshia Boyd NOUNS

  2. What is a Noun? A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea.

  3. Common Nouns Examples • The boy read the book. • The bus driver drove the kids to school.

  4. 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.

  5. Examples of Proper Nouns • Zeneshia went to Mt. Everest. • Jessica ordered pizza for everyone.

  6. Concrete Nouns • Are nouns that are detected by the senses.

  7. Examples of Concrete Nouns • The dog licked the ice cream off the floor. • This is my house.

  8. Abstract Nouns • Are nouns that aren’t physical. They’re sometimes called idea nouns.

  9. Examples of Abstract Nouns • Honesty is a virtue. • You should always show respect to your elders.

  10. Collective Nouns • A noun naming a group of things, animals, or persons.

  11. Examples of Collective Nouns • The class turned in all their homework. • The flock of geese walked across the street.

  12. Countable Nouns • A noun with both a singular and plural form, and names anything (or anyone) that can count.

  13. Examples of Countable Nouns • We painted the chairs and table blue. • The tree lost three branches in the hurricane.

  14. 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.

  15. Examples of Non-Countable Nouns • Oxygen is essential to humans. • We decided to sell the furniture rather than keep it.

  16. 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. <http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/commonnoun.htm> • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy72OPgdVuA

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