Nouns are words that name a person, place, thing, or idea'

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• Nouns are words that name a person, place, thing,
  or idea.
• Persons include both names of people and
  categories.
• Mr. Blue children policeman teacher girl
• Places can name both specific and general places.
• New York school park department
  stores homes
• Things refer to objects.
• door shoes newspaper table globe
• Ideas tell about feelings or thoughts.
• love pain care freedom belief rules

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• Types of nouns
• Common Nouns names any one of a group of
  persons, places things or ideas generally does
  NOT begin with a capital letter
• Examples poem ship newspaper day city
  love liberty
• Proper nouns names a particular person, place,
  thing, or idea
• Examples Friday Sony Emily Playstation
  Nike
• Concrete Nouns nouns that can be perceived by
  one or more of the senses (sight, hear, taste,
  touch, and smell)
• Examples hummingbird, telephone, teacher,
  popcorn, ocean

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• Abstract Nouns Your five senses cannot detect
  this group of nouns. You cannot see them, hear
  them, smell them, taste them, or feel them.
• When Joseph dived into the violent waves to
  rescue a drowning puppy, his bravery amazed the
  crowd of fishermen standing on the dock.
• Bravery, one of the nouns in this sentence, is
  an example of an abstract noun.
• You can see Joseph, the water, and the crowd.
  But you cannot see bravery itself.
• Bravery has no color, size, shape, sound, odor,
  flavor, or texture it has no quality that you
  can see, hear, smell, taste, or touch. Any noun
  that escapes your five senses is an abstract noun.

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• Compound Nouns nouns made up of two or more
  words.
• Separate words (high school, post office, fire
  drill)
• One word ( basketball, drugstore, doghouse,
  drugstore)
• Hyphenated words ( self-control, mother-in-law,
  twelve-years-old)
• WHEN YOU ARE NOT SURE HOW TO WRITE A COMPOUND
  NOUN, LOOK IT UP IN A DICTIONARY

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• Collective noun names a group of people or
  things
• Examples family, crew, flock, herd, class, team,
  band, club