Activity!

noun
 Words that name people, places, things,
events or ideas

 It is not the actual thing that the word

represents

 Can be singular or plural

 nouns
Common Proper
Abstract Concrete

Countable Uncountable

Mass Collective

Compound
Common Proper
 these name general,  name specific people,
nonspecific people, places, things, or ideas
places, things, or ideas  always start with a
 start with a lowercase
letter unless they begin
capital letter
a sentence  Ex: Victor Hugo, Paris,
 Ex: writer, city, park, Disneyland,Christianity
religion
Concrete
 name something that Abstract
you can perceive with  name something that
your five senses - you cannot perceive
with your five senses -
something that something that does not
physically exists physically exist
 ex: cat, chocolate,  Ex: happiness, freedom,
Martha Christianity
Countable
 can be counted, and Uncountable
 cannot be counted
they use both the
 only use the singular
singular and the form
plural forms  Ex: milk, rice, water
 Ex:clock/clocks,
David/Davids,
poem/poems
Collective Mass
 Names a group of  Cannot be broken up
persons or things into member parts
 ex: class, family,  Ex:
council cavan/sacks/grains of
rice,
Compound
 made up of two or more smaller
words
 Ex: tablecloth, haircut, applesauce,
editor-in-chief, mother-in-law
ABSTRACTION

Write short summaries of your favorite books,

movies, or TV shows. Then, cross out all of the
nouns in the story, and write the story over
leaving out all of the nouns.
 Activity

Name it in a Snap!
 TASK:
Each sentence below contains two or more nouns. Underline the nouns
and then indicate to what category each belongs.
1. Does Jimmy really want to move to California?
2. An impolite fish asked my brother for a worm.
3. Amy will travel to Norway and Sweden.
4. Which is larger, Microsoft or Intel?
5. Cats are very valuable helpers on a farm.
6. My grandfather wasn’t allowed in that diner because of his strange habits.
7. Cassy, Samantha, and David are playing outside.
8. Happiness is a feeling that is hard to describe.
9. Her smile became a frown as she noticed the tiny insects crawling out of
her sandwich.
10. The Giants will not play the Cubs in Orlando.
HOMEWORK:

Read the selection, “The Prophet” by Khalil

Gibran. Then, jot down all the nouns used then
identify each category.
 THANK YOU
FOR LISTENING!
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