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Nouns

Nouns. What are they?. People, places, things, and ideas. How do you mark them?. Underline them once. Concrete Nouns. Anything you see, touch, hear, smell, or taste is a noun. These are called concrete nouns. Examples:. The chair …A computer …The sound …The cake. Other Nouns….

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Nouns

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  1. Nouns

  2. What are they? People, places, things, and ideas

  3. How do you mark them? Underline them once

  4. Concrete Nouns Anything you see, touch, hear, smell, or taste is a noun. These are called concrete nouns. Examples: The chair…A computer…The sound…The cake Other Nouns… Desk, chair, computer, paper, carpet, marker, smell, sound, screech, lemon, apple, car

  5. Proper Nouns Everything that is capitalized is a noun. These are names of things and are called proper nouns. These include names of people, places, literary works, movies, and so forth. Examples: The Epic of Gilgamesh Bill ClintonPresident Bush DenverZaireThe Orient Express

  6. Compounds Nouns Nouns can be compounds. Examples: baseball, newspaper, Michael Jordan, The Sierra Club, country club

  7. Abstract Nouns We can speak of these things even though we can’t see them, touch them, smell them, or hear them. Examples: Autonomy, liberty, beauty, clarity, complacency, continuity, health, wealth, intelligence, independence, firmness, kindness, heartiness, selfishness, selflessness, entrepreneurship, leadership, ownership, stewardship

  8. Collective Nouns One confusing group of nouns is the collective nouns. They name groups of things. Examples: The audience…A batch…The flock of geese…The litter of kittens…The army of ants… Other collective nouns… army, audience, batch, brigade, bunch, cluster, crowd, dozen, flock, gaggle, jury, litter, orchestra, platoon, pride, set, staff, swarm

  9. Pronouns Pronouns are types of nouns. They replace nouns. Examples: I run…Mine are…Yours seem…They have…She is…to them…to us… Personal Pronouns: I, me, mine, we, us, ours, you, yours, he, she, it, its, they, theirs, them Reflexive Pronouns: Myself, ourselves, yourself, yourselves, himself, herself, itself, themselves Interrogative: Who, whom, whose, (Ex. Who did this?) Indefinite: all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, each other, either, everybody, everyone, everything, few, many, more, most, much, neither, nobody, none, no one, nothing, one, one another, other, several, some, somebody, someone, something, such

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