nouns

concrete nouns

A noun that can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched. Refers to people or things that exist physically and that at least one of the senses can detect. dog, tree, apple, moon,

Noun

A word that names a person, place or thing.

proper noun: Capitalizing days of the week, months, seasons

Because we capitalize the days of the week and the months of the year, people sometimes capitalize the seasons spring, summer, fall (or autumn), and winter by extension. However, they should only be capitalized when they are used as a part of a proper name. Will you be visiting New York in the spring? I am thinking of attending the Spring Social this year.

example of proper nouns

John, London, Pluto, France

proper noun: Are Directions Capitalized?

The directions of the compass are not capitalized unless they are used as part of the proper name of a region. The trail continued west all the way to the coastline. What time is it on the West Coast?

proper noun rules: Mom or mom? Nouns Indicating a Family Relationship

The rule of thumb is, when you use a word like mom, dad, or aunt, capitalize it only if the word is being used exactly as you would a name, as if you were addressing the person directly. Please ask Mom if she would like steak for dinner. Is your mom coming over for dinner?

uncountable nouns

cannot be counted. They often refer to substances, liquids, or an abstract ideas liquid- milk, water, tea, blood, rain substances- wood, cheese, paper, gold, sugar, rice abstract ideas- happiness, love, hate, time

regular plural nouns +s

dog --> dogs cat --> cats

example of common noun

girl city, animal, house

countable nouns

have a singular and plural form and can be used with a number of a/an before it. They are sometimes called counting nouns. use a when the noun begins with a constant a bag a cat use an when the noun begins with a vowel an university an utensil

abstract noun

have no physical existence. They refer to ideas, emotions, and concepts you cannot see, smell, taste, hear or, feel bravery, happiness, fear , sorrow, freedom, loneliness, love, poverty, riches, thought

irregular plural nouns examples

leaf --> leaves child --> children fungus --> fungi mouse --> mice sheep --> sheep

collective nouns

refer to a set or group of people, animals, or things. The name of a group of things. often followed by OF + PLURAL NOUNS- a bunch of flowers

collective noun: choose the correct pronoun The board of directors had their/its meeting on Friday.

team ALL OF THESE = 1 thing board band faculty subject = the board of directors = prepositional phrases S + V agreement: the board = its The board of directors had its meeting on Friday.

compound noun

two or more words that create a noun. They can be written as one word, joined by a hyphen or written as separate words toothbrush, jack-in-the-box, bus stop, rainfall, son-in-law, credit card

proper noun

used to name a SPECIFIC (or individual person, place, or thing)

common noun

used to name person, place, thing, in GENERAL. It refers to a class or type of person or thing (without being specific).