Ms. Garcia

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Nouns

• Ms. Garcia

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Nouns

• Name the following
• A person
• A place
• A thing
• An idea

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Types of Nouns

• Concrete Nouns (Person, Place, Thing)
• People, places, things you can perceive with your
  senses
• See, smell, touch, hear, taste
• Examples
• Doctors
• Teachers
• Elephants
• Bacon
• Shoes
• New York
• Trains

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Types of nouns

• Abstract Nouns (Idea)
• Ideas, qualities, feelings
• Examples
• Emotions
• Dreams
• Thoughts
• Freedom
• Hope
• Courage
• Fear
• Pain
• Faith
• Beliefs

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Concrete Abstract Nouns

• Directions Underline concrete nouns and circle
  the abstract nouns.
• 1. The principal asked all the students to think
  about the importance of friendship.
• 2. When I looked at the new mother, her love for
  her newborn baby was obvious.
• 3. He looked at the pile of money with greed in
  his eyes, and then he tried to grab it.
• 4. He patted his full stomach with satisfaction
  after he ?nished eating his dinner.
• 5. Her eyes were full of hope as she asked her
  mom to let her keep the puppy.

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Common vs. Proper Nouns

• Proper nouns are words that name a specific
  person, place, thing, or idea. Proper nouns are
  capitalized so the reader can tell them apart
  from common nouns.
• Common nouns do not name a specific person,
  place, thing or idea. Common nouns are not
  capitalized unless they are at the beginning of a
  sentence or part of a title.

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Common vs. proper nouns

• Proper - George Washington
• Common man
• Proper - White House
• Common building
• Proper - United States Constitution
• Common - document

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Countable Nouns

• Countable nouns refer to things we can COUNT.
• Examples
• Flowers
• Apples
• Orchestra

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Count nouns

• A count noun has a singular form and a plural
  form.
• Example one book, three books a leg, two legs
  an apple, six apples

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NonCOunt Nouns

• Uncountable/noncount nouns refer to things we
  cannot count.
• Examples
• Freedom
• Maturity
• Intelligence

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Noncount nouns

• A non-count noun has no plural form.
• We use quantifiers before non-count nouns
• Example fruit, some fruit bread, a slice of
  bread homework a lot of homework information,
  a little information

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Quiz

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  untquiz.html
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  iz295.html