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What are nouns

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What are nouns

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    1. What are nouns? Nouns are words that name persons, places, or things.

    2. Nouns answer two questions. Who? What?

    3. Eight kinds of nouns Proper Common Abstract Concrete Count Noncount Collective Compound

    4. Proper nouns name a specific person, place or thing and always begin with a capital letter. The Cleveland Indians Pepsi Men in Black

    5. Common nouns name a general category of person, place or thing. gemstones ice cream the movies

    6. An abstract noun names something not physically perceived by our senses. joy mercy democracy freedom

    7. Concrete nouns name things we can physically perceive with our senses. glove book computer car

    8. Count nouns refer to things that can be counted twenty-nine cents three cookies billions of stars

    9. Noncount nouns refer to masses or quantities that cannot be counted. Pepper snow air iodine

    10. A collective noun names a group acting as a unit. jury class team community

    11. Collective nouns Are often singular The herd stampedes whenever thunder claps. Sometimes are plural The herd scatter in all directions. The family sits on the couch in the living room. The family sit on the chairs in the living room.

    12. A compound noun is made up of more than one word. It may be written as separate words, a single word, or hyphenated. Attorney general Plural: attorney generals Grandfather Plural: grandfathers brother-in-law Plural: brothers-in-law

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