Nouns

Poetry is all nouns and verbs

Marianne More

What is a noun?

A noun is a word used to name a person,

animal, place, thing, and abstract idea.
Nouns are usually the first words which
small children learn.
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Nouns

a person

baby

an animal

a place
dog

city

an idea

a thing

flower

freedom

Nouns
Singular and plural nouns
Singular nouns: Refer to one thing.
a baby
a dog a flower

Plural nouns: Refer to two or more things

babies dogs flowers

Nouns
Concrete and abstract nouns
Concrete nouns: Something you can perceive with
your five senses (see, touch, taste, hear or smell).

Abstract nouns: Something you can not perceive

through any of your five senses.

Nouns
Collective nouns
Name a group of people or thing. This class
of nouns denotes a group of people,
animals, objects, or concepts or ideas as a
single entity.

army, troop

Nouns
Compound nouns
Made up of two or more words acting as a
single unit.
Types:
1. Separate words: coffee table

2. Hyphenated words: editor-in-chief

3. Combined words: battlefield

Nouns
Common nouns and Proper nouns
A common noun names any type of noun
(person, animal, place, thing, idea).
A proper noun names an specific person,
place or thing.

This is a dog. A dog is a common noun.

This is also an specific dog. His name is Homer.
Homer is a proper noun because is the particular
name of this dog. A proper noun always begins with
a capital letter.

Nouns
Count nouns and Noncount nouns
Count nouns: Nouns that we can count (one pencil,
two pencils, three pencils). They can be singular or
plural (a book, two books).

Noncount nouns: Nouns that we can not count.

They have no plural. Example: bread, cheese,
ice-cream, yogurt.

Put a or an before singular nouns. Do not use the articles a or an with noncount
nouns.

NOUNS ARE VERY IMPORTANT.

LET'S CONTINUE STUDYING ABOUT
THIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT OF
THE ENGLISH GRAMMAR.