Nouns

1. Nouns Review

2. Nouns • A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea, or quality.

3. Examples • Person: people • Can be in general or specific people. • Aunts, uncles, golfer, shopkeeper, musician, Uncle Joe

4. Place • Can be general or specific: • Forest, school, house • Shenandoah National Forest, Briar Woods High School, White House

5. Thing • Can be any things. • Chair, door, pencil, car, yard, dog, cat, water

6. Idea/Quality • Examples of ideas (these are not something you can touch, but they still exist): • Hunger, jealousy, hope, happiness, sad, freedom, pride

7. Concrete vs. Abstract • Nouns can be classified into two type: concrete and abstract. • Concrete nouns are words that can be touched or seen (think like the word says – you can touch concrete) chairs, dog, etc. • Abstract nouns are words that have no physical body, such as ideals (hope, freedom, pride)

8. Common and Proper nouns • Common nouns are run of the mill normal nouns that name unspecific items: such as table, dog, house, yard. • Proper nouns name something specific and are usually capitalized with use: White House, Uncle Joe, Washington, D.C., Briar Woods High School.

9. Count vs. noncount nouns • Count nouns are nouns that can have a quantity added to them. Dogs, cats, pencils, phones. • Non count nouns are nouns who don’t have a quantity. Software, deer, music, heat. (You don’t add an “s” to these).

10. Collective Nouns • Nouns that signify a group of some kind: • Herd of deer, acting troupe, murder of crows, track team, flock of geese

11. Assignments • Worksheet packet next (YAY) • Quiz on nouns (need to know definitions and how to pick out examples) on Thursday.