Nouns
Nouns represent
persons, places, things, qualities and ideas. They function in a sentence
as:
- the
subject- the person or thing doing the action that the verb
describes,
- the
object - the person or thing receiving the action
-or-
- the
complement - noun that helps to describe another noun. It's
a noun that functions more like an adjective - describing a noun,
for example:
I
call joggers fanatics.
The wool
scarf.
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There
are several ways to categorize nouns:
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noun
type:
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what
it does:
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example:
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I.
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Common
Nouns
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identify
groups, places, and things:
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singer,
city
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Proper
Nouns
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name
specific people, places, things These
are always capitalized.
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Madonna,
London
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II.
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Concrete
Nouns
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names
things experienced through the senses; sight, hearing, taste,
smell, touch.
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pizza
or thunder or flowers
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Abstract
Nouns
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names
things that are not knowable through the senses.
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shyness,
freedom
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III.
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Collective
Nouns
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names
groups
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team,
family, army
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IV.
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Non
count
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nouns
that name things that aren't able to be counted
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sugar
and sand
While
you can count the types of sugar or the grains of sand, you
can't count more than one sand, for example, “Sands” is not
a word in English.
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Count
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Most
nouns are countable and make their plurals by adding the suffixes
-s or -es to the end of the word.
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bus
- buses,
house
- houses,
bag
-bags
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A
Noun is a Person Place or Thing
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