NOUNS

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NOUNS

• A noun names a PERSON, PLACE, THING, or IDEA
• There are several categories of nouns.

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Collective Nouns

• A COLLECTIVE noun is a noun that names a group.
• EX team, staff, faculty

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Compound Nouns

• A compound noun is made up of two or more words.
  There are THREE types.
• A COMBINED word is when two words are put
  together as one. EX birthday
• SEPARATE words are two words that are separate,
  but go together as a noun EX New York
• HYPHENATED words are two words with a hyphen
  between them EX eighty-two

HANDBOOK
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Common Nouns

• A common noun names any one of a group of
  persons, places or things.

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Proper Nouns

• A PROPER noun names a specific person, place or
  thing.
• EX United States of America

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Concrete Nouns

• A CONCRETE noun names a person, place or thing
  that can be perceived by one of the five senses.
• Ex Dog
• You can TOUCH the dog, SMELL the dog and HEAR the
  dog.

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Abstract Nouns

• An ABSTRACT noun names an idea, a feeling, a
  quality or a characteristic.
• Ex Love, hate, beautiful, intelligent