Noun

A noun is the name of anything, concept (idea), or quality.

 Person: Gardener, Musician, Writer, Sculptor

 Place: College, Garden, Zoo
 Thing: Apple, Bracelet, Dinner, Poem

Types:
 Common Noun
 Proper Noun
 Collective Noun
 Compound Noun
 Singular Noun
 Plural Noun
 Abstract Noun
 Countable Noun
 Uncountable Noun

Common and proper noun:

o Common nouns name a general person, place, or thing
o Proper nouns name a specific person, place, or thing.

Common Proper

Teacher Ms. Jones

Game Monopoly
Museum High Museum

Collective noun:
The collective noun is one collection of many parts. A collective noun names
a group, a collection. While it is made of many parts, it is ONE collection.

 We have one audience, but it is made of many people.

 We have one team, but it is made of many players.
 We have one troop, but it is made of many soldiers.
Compound noun:
A compound noun is made up of two or more nouns put together to make a
new word. These words can be separated, hyphenated, or simple joined
together.

 The seventh grade students are new to middle school.

 Mr. Victor hit a bull’s-eye on his dart board.
 Many people have seen the Golden Gate Bridge.

Forming Possessive Nouns:

With the exception of a plural noun with an “s” on its end, all
possessive nouns are formed by adding a’s.

There are two types of plural nouns, regular and irregular. A regular noun is one which is made plural
by adding an –s or an –es. An irregular noun is made plural with either an internal change (foot/feet) or
the addition of another suffix (child/children). Still other irregular nouns have the same form whether
they are singular or plural (fish/fish).

Regular Irregular
Singular Plural Singular Plural
Box’s Boxes’ Foot’s Feet’s
Hat’s Hats’ Tooth’s Teeth’s
Toy’s Toys’ Child’s Children’s

Place a possessive pronoun in front of the noun (such as ours, his, my)

o “My idea” Yes! Idea is a noun.

o “Our follow” No! Follow is not a noun.

Abstract Noun:
An abstract noun is a noun which refers to ideas, qualities, and conditions
things that cannot be seen or touched and things which have no physical
reality,

 Truth, danger, happiness, time, friendship, humor.

Concrete noun:
A concrete noun is a noun which refers to people and to things that exist
physically and can be seen, touched, smelled, heard, or tasted.

 Dog, building, coffee, tree, rain, beach, tune.

Countable noun:
Countable nouns (or count nouns) are those that refer to something that
can be counted. They have both singular and plural forms

 Cat / cats; woman / women; country / countries.

In the singular, they can be preceded by article a or an. Most nouns come into this
category.

Uncountable noun:
A smaller number of nouns do not typically refer to things that can
be counted and so they do not regularly have a plural form: these
are known as uncountable nouns (or mass nouns).

 Rain, flour, earth, wine, or wood.

Uncountable nouns can't be preceded by article a or an. Many abstract nouns are typically

uncountable,

o Happiness, truth, darkness, humor.