NOUNS – Unit 2 8 th Grade

1. NOUNS – Unit 2 8th Grade By: Angélica Guerra, MS Greater Miami Adventist Academy

2. CONCRETE & ABSTRACT 1. CONCRETE: A noun that names something that can be experienced with the senses (can be seen, heard, tasted, or touched) • ABSTRACT: A noun that names an idea, a quality, or a feeling. COMMON & PROPER • COMMON: Refers to ANY person, place, thing, or idea. • PROPER: Names a PARTICULAR person, Place, thing, or idea. Always capitalized. If it contains more than 1 word, capitalize all important words.

3. Write sentences using all 4 types of nouns just learned:

4. COLLECTIVE NOUNS • Refers to a GROUP of people, animals, or things. • a bunch of grapes • a flock of birds • the baseball team COMPOUND NOUNS • Two or more words used as a single noun. • Can be written as a single word: watermelon separate words: Miami Beach hyphenated words: father-in-law

5. APPOSITIVES – p. 88 • A word or phrase that comes RIGHT AFTER the noun it explains or identifies. • They are set apart from the rest of the sentence by commas or parentheses. • They can be serious, scientific, funny, etc. • When the appositive is needed to identify the noun it follows, don’t use commas. • My cousin Stephanie always goes to the beach with me.

6. A SINGULAR NOUN: • Names ONE person, place, thing, or idea • A PLURAL NOUN: • Names MORE THAN ONE person, place, thing, or idea Check and memorize rules on pages 90 & 91 for Regular Forms and Irregular Forms.

7. Make a sentence using several singular and plural nouns:

8. POSSESSIVE NOUNS – 4 • Possessive Noun: A noun that shows ownership (or possession) • Possessive forms replace the word OF or the verb HAVE: • Legs of the table = table’s legs • The dog has a bone. = the dog’s bone

9. RULES FOR POSSESSIVES: • For a singular noun, add an apostrophe and –s (‘s) -- Anna’spurse -- James’s car • For a plural nouns that ends in s, add an apostrophe ONLY (‘). -- The students’ books --animals’ babies • For a plural noun that does not end in s, add an apostrophe and –s (‘s). -- children’stoys --mice’s cheese • For a compound noun, add an apostrophe (‘) and –s (‘s) to the end of the compound. -- mother-in-law’sshoes --the rainbow’s colors • If 2 or more people own a single thing, place the apostrophe after the last person’s name. -- Ana and Peter’s dog • If each owns a thing separately, make each noun possessive. -- Ana’s and Peter’s dogs

10. Make a sentence or phrase using a POSSESSIVE NOUN:

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