NOUN

A word used to name a

person, place, thing, or idea
Compound Noun =
 Two or  seafood
grandmother
more words 


daydream
that are  compact disc
used to  grand piano
make one  police office
noun  self-esteem
 great-grandparents
 Collective Noun =
 Names one  faculty
family
thing that


 herd
has many  team
parts or  band
members  jury
 Common / Proper Nouns =

 Common—names any one

of a group of persons,
places, or things
– Examples—poem, day, city, street
 Common / Proper Nouns =

 Proper—name a specific or
particular person, place, or
things
– Examples—“The Raven”, Friday,
Booneville, Martin Luther King Drive
 Concrete Noun =
 Names a person, place, or
thing that can be
perceived or experienced
with one of the five senses
– Examples—hummingbird, music, popcorn,
N-Sync, ocean, star, heat, hamburger
 Abstract Noun =
 Names a feeling, quality,
idea, characteristic, or
emotion that is
experienced in your mind
– Examples = love, joy, freedom, peace,
knowledge, pride, faith
Tell whether each word names a person,
place, thing, or idea.
Note: some are not nouns

 student  person
 marbles  thing
 satisfaction  idea
 enter  not noun
 entrance  place
 ugly  not noun
 often  not noun
 singer  person
Tell whether each word names a person,
place, thing, or idea.
Note: some are not nouns

 England  place
 and  not noun
 under  not noun
 liberty  idea
 roadside  place
 forgiveness  idea
 file clerk  person
 sunflower  thing
 Tell whether each noun is
concrete or abstract.

 Philadelphia
 wisdom
 eagle
 First
Continental
Congress
 freedom
 Tell whether each noun is
concrete or abstract.

 Thomas
Jefferson
 Declaration of
Independence
 Potomac River
 law
 happiness
 Identify any collective or
compound nouns.

My sister-in-law and her family

live on a houseboat on Lake Ontario.

sister-in-law Lake Ontario

houseboat family
 Identify any collective or
compound nouns.

The cast felt great self-respect when

the audience cheered on and on.

self-respect cast

audience