Nouns

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Nouns
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• A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea.
• A common noun is a general name for a person,
  place, thing, or idea. Common nouns are not
  capitalized.
• A proper noun is the name of a particular or
  specific person, place, thing, or idea. A proper
  noun is always capitalized.

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• Common or proper?
• Nile, Kenya, Charles Lindbergh
• Common or proper?
• river, country, pilot

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• Correct or incorrect?
• I go to Albemarle high school.
• Incorrect. Since you are stating your specific
  high school, you must capitalize the entire
  title.
• Correction I go to Albemarle High School.
• Correct or incorrect?
• I am a high school student.
• Correct. You are not listing your specific high
  school you are generally stating you go to high
  school.

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• A concrete noun names an object that can be seen,
  heard, smelled, touched, or tasted.
• An abstract noun names an idea, quality, or
  characteristic. These things cannot be seen,
  heard, smelled, touched, or tasted.

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Noun Concrete or Abstract?
shoe
freedom
perfume
simplicity
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Correct Answers
Noun Concrete or Abstract?
shoe concrete
freedom abstract
perfume concrete
simplicity abstract
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• A noun may either be singular (if it names a
  single thing) or plural (if it names more than
  one thing)
• Singular map, berry, deer, mouse
• Plural maps, berries, deer, mice

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• Every noun is either common or proper, concrete
  or abstract, and singular or plural.
• For example, desert is
• common or proper?
• concrete or abstract?
• singular or plural?
• Desert is common, concrete, and singular

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• Great Lakes is
• common or proper?
• concrete or abstract?
• singular or plural?
• Great Lakes is proper, concrete, and plural.

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• A collective noun refers to a group of people or
  things. Even when a collective noun is singular,
  it is used to refer to a number of individuals.
• Examples
• Ms. Littles 3rd period class
• Albemarle High Schools football team
• The herd of sheep

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• A compound noun is formed from two or more words.
  Some compound nouns are written as single words,
  some as hyphenated words, and some as separate
  words.
• One word toothbrush, backpack, watermelon
• Hyphenated sister-in-law, self-knowledge
• Separate words duffel bag, South Carolina

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• A possessive noun shows ownership or
  relationship. Possessive nouns are spelled with
  apostrophes.
• Ownership the tourists passport
• Relationship the tourists companion

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Practice

• Fill in the provided chart using page 8 in the
  SMALL BLUE GRAMMAR BOOK.