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Noun Types and Capitalization Lesson
Noun Types and Capitalization Lesson
Parts of Speech 1
Noun Types
Noun: person, place, or thing.
Concrete or abstract
Singular, plural, or possessive and
Common or proper
Concrete or Abstract
Concrete: a physical person, place, or thing.
Ex: desks, Mr. Morton, candy bars
Examples:
Chicago, Illinois, the Mississippi River,
Chris, The Simpsons, English, Chicken
McNuggets, Nike Jordan, CPS
Practice
I’ll put a noun on the board.
You will write whether it is…
Singular, plural, or possessive
Concrete or abstract
Common or proper
Example
schools = plural, concrete, common noun
1
dogs
Big Mac
3
Tyga’s
glasses
5
beauty
Nintendo Wii
7
crime
Wednesday’s
9
pants
10
politeness