KINDS OF NOUNS

A mini-lesson on kinds of nouns by Terri Steiner

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Kinds of Nouns

• Common Nouns• Proper Nouns• Concrete Nouns• Abstract Nouns

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Common Nouns

• A common noun is any noun that does not name a specific person, place, thing, or idea. Common nouns are not capitalized.

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woman

school city holiday

Proper Nouns

• A proper noun names a specific person, place, thing, or idea. Proper nouns are capitalized.

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Halloween

Mexico George Washington

Concrete Nouns

• A concrete noun names a thing that can be seen or touched. Concrete nouns are either common or proper.

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telephone television table Washington Monument

Abstract Nouns

• An abstract noun names something that cannot be seen or touched. Abstract nouns are either common or proper.

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love music Christianity

Check What You Have Learned

Which one of these nouns is a proper noun?

love

manLabor Day

tree

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• A proper noun names a specific person, place, thing, or idea. Proper nouns are capitalized.

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• A proper noun names a specific person, place, thing, or idea. Proper nouns are capitalized.

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Bio• Terri Steiner, senior at Western

Michigan University, Elementary Education Major.

• Resources for this mini-lesson Kemper, D., Nathan, R., Elsholz, C., Sebranek, P.,

(2000). Writers Express: A Handbook for Young Writers, Thinkers, and Learners (pp. 418). Great Source Education Group, A division of Houghton Mifflin Company.

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