NOUNS

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KINDS OF NOUNS
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COMMON NOUN PROPER NOUN

General name for a person, place or Names a particular or specific person,
thing. It always begins with a first place, or thing. It always begins with a
letter unless it is the first word of a capital letter, regardless of its
sentence. position in a sentence.
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CONCRETE NOUN ABSTRACT NOUN

Tangible; nouns that can be Cannot be perceived through any
physically seen or touched. of the five senses (i.e touch, hear,
smell, see, and taste)
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COUNT NOUNS MASS NOUNS

General name for a person, place or Names a particular or specific person,
thing. It always begins with a first place, or thing. It always begins with a
letter unless it is the first word of a capital letter, regardless of its
sentence. position in a sentence.
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COLLECTIVE NOUNS

Name groups/collection of people

animals, or things taken as a whole.

e.g family, team, committee, class

pride of lions, school of fish, murder of
crows, parliament of owls, clowder of cats
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COMPOUND NOUNS

Composed of two or more words acting as a

single unit

SEPARATED
- dining table, Ferris wheel, ice cream
HYPHENATED
- sister-in-law, editor-in-chief, jack-in-the-box
COMBINED
- newspaper, rainbow, notebook, grandmother
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REGULAR NOUNS IRREGULAR NOUNS

Add s or es to form its plural Change its spelling when in plural form

NOTE: Nouns that retain their spelling

when in plural form are also considered
as irregular nouns
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POSSESSIVE NOUNS
Nouns that show
ownership. The possessive
form of a noun is formed by
adding an apostrophe (‘) or
an apostrophe and s (‘s)
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USE APOSTROPHE & S USE APOSTROPHE ONLY

• Singular Common Nouns • Plural Nouns ending in “s”
e.g Wimpy kid’s diary e.g students’ votes
• Singular Proper Nouns that don’t end in “s” • Singular Proper Nouns ending in “s”
e.g Mary’s little lamb e.g James’ makeup
• Irregular Plural Nouns
e.g People’s choice
• Joint Possessive
e.g Buzz and Woody’s friend
• Separate Possessive
e.g Buzz and Woody’s origins
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FUNCTIONS OF
NOUNS
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SUBJECT PREDICATE NOMINATIVE

Tells what the sentence is about or doer of (i.e Subjective Complement) A noun that follows a
the action in a sentence linking verb and means the same as the subject

APPOSITIVE
DIRECT ADDRESS
Placed next to a subject and renames it. It is
Name of person to whom the sentence in
separated by two commas from the rest of
addressed
the sentence
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DIRECT OBJECT OBJECTIVE COMPLEMENT

Noun that receives the action of the verb in Renames or complements the direct object
the sentence by describing it

INDIRECT OBJECT OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION

Often precedes a direct object and indicates Noun that follows a preposition
to whom or for whom an action is performed
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