Post on 02-Jan-2016
Examples
• Person: people• Can be in general or
specific people.
• Aunts, uncles, golfer, shopkeeper, musician, Uncle Joe
Place
• Can be general or specific:
• Forest, school, house• Shenandoah National
Forest, Briar Woods High School, White House
Idea/Quality
• Examples of ideas (these are not something you can touch, but they still exist):
• Hunger, jealousy, hope, happiness, sad, freedom, pride
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)
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.
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).
Collective Nouns
• Nouns that signify a group of some kind:
• Herd of deer, acting troupe, murder of crows, track team, flock of geese