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Introduction to Nouns

An introduction to Nouns

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Introduction to Nouns

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  1. presents Language- Arts / Grammar Lessons Afiya Clyne ©2020

  2. TODAY WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT NOUNS

  3. OBJECTIVES After this lesson, students should be able to: • define a noun. • identify nouns around you. • share ideas about nouns(person, place, animal, thing and ideas in the environment.

  4. THE EIGHT PARTS OF SPEECH In the last lesson, we learnt about the PART OF SPEECH. We learnt that there are 8 PARTS OF SPEECH. Let’s name them: • NOUNS • PRONOUNS • ADJECTIVES • VERBS • ADVERBS • PREPOSITIONS • CONJUNCTIONS • INTERJECTIONS

  5. A noun is a NAMEof a : • PERSON • PLACE • ANIMAL • THING • QUALITY or IDEA

  6. WHAT IS A NOUN? • The NOUN is a word that names something. • They are names for persons, animals, places, objects, substances, qualities, actions, measures of time or quantity which can be pointed out, recognized and called a name. • It is the word that tells, what you are talking about.

  7. The following list includes examples of different kinds of nouns PERSONS: teacher-Ana-cousin-father ANIMALS: frog-mouse-zebra-alligator PLACES: home-Arima-woods-school THINGS: pen-photo-computer-ribbon SUBSTANCES: metal-air-water-food-oil QUALITIES kindness-heroism-beauty-hate GERUNDS /ACTIONS: climbing-cooking-reading-Exercising MEASURES: year-pound-inch-day-centimetre

  8. sun sky NOUN SCENE clouds roof clouds house/home Rover/pet/dog children/boys/girl Mike/Lin/John door window shrub plant pond/water grass/lawn Jake/man/doctor father/ husband Jane/woman/doctor mother/ wife vehicle/car Suzuki S5

  9. PERSONS Jim father waiter Kate man doctor boy Adam Mr. Smith cousin

  10. PLACES city beach Mt. Everest zoo Trinidad island park Port of Spain Miami river

  11. ANIMALS Polly snake bear pony wolf alligator ant monkey Rover shark

  12. THINGS bed floor lunch tent Suzuki Swift television grass car sandwich grapes

  13. ABSTRACT /CONCEPT: QUALITY AND IDEAS hate poverty love faith sadness bravery silence beauty friendship speed

  14. All these words are NAMES Therefore they are NOUNS mother-in-law lion Friday hate Tobago water Richard boy herd March wealth Nissan pencil American

  15. Look around you, it would be hard not to find a noun.

  16. When trying to find a NOUN, ask yourself this: • Is it a person? • Is it a place ? • Is it an animal? • Is it a thing? • Is it a quality? • Is it an idea? If the answer is yes for anyone of these question, then the word is a NOUN.

  17. TYPES OF NOUNS

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