Nouns –nnnnnaming words Nouns are naming words. They are the words that we give to people, objects, places, feelings etc. What are the two main types of noun? There are two main types of noun: Proper and Common Proper noun- specific person, place or thing. E.g. Paris, Saturday, Olivia Common noun – not so specific and refer to types of people, objects, feelings etc. E.g. student, city, girl, disappointment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Common nouns can be further sub-divided into: Concrete noun- these are nouns that refer to things that physically exist: house, tree, table Abstract noun – these are nouns which refer to feelings, ideas, qualities, etc. Things that don’t physically exist – freedom, friendship, strength Collective noun – these are names given to groups of people, animals and objects. E.g: Team, flock, herd

Nouns - checkpoint It’s important to note that the same word can be a different word class if it is used in different ways. What word class is the word paint in the following sentence: He likes to paint in the evening. He bought a tin of paint.

Write out the ten words below and state what type of noun they are. Richard swarm dreams Twix children fish sadness St. John Plessington Adolf Hitler table Proper noun Collective noun Abstract noun Concrete noun

Pronouns Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns. If the sentence: John gave his telephone number to Laura is changed to He gave it to her, three pronouns take the place of nouns. Many pronouns are personal pronouns (pronouns which replace the subject or object of a sentence). They include: I, me, we us (first person pronouns), you (second person pronoun) He, she, it, him, her, they, them (third person pronouns) Other pronouns include such words as mine, ours, yourself, who, whose, someone, anything

Adjectives – Add more to the noun Adjectives are words used to describe nouns. E.g. an expensive car, a tall man, a scary house… We can also differentiate when we consider where the adjective is placed in a phrase or sentence. E.g. In the sentence, ‘She has an expensive car;’ the adjective is placed before the noun so it is a pre-modifying adjective or just pre-modifier. But, in the sentence, ‘She has a car which is expensive;’ the adjective is placed after the noun so it is post-modifying adjective or just post- modifier.

Adjectives – Add more to the noun Words such as colder and bigger are comparative adjectives or simply comparatives. Words such as coldest and biggest are superlative adjectives or simply superlatives.