Nouns 2A

Common Nouns A common noun is a general name for a person, place, thing, or idea. Common nouns are usually not capitalized. Examples: astronaut, planet, mission

Proper Nouns A proper noun is the name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea. Proper nouns are always capitalized. Examples: Sally Ride, Jupiter, Apollo-11

Concrete Nouns Examples Include: paper, books, pencils, rocks Concrete nouns name: things that can be seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted. Examples Include: paper, books, pencils, rocks He stepped on the rocks. Rocks are the concrete noun because it can be seen or touched.

Abstract Nouns Abstract nouns name: ideas, quality, feelings, or characteristics. Examples Include: happiness, sadness, bravery He felt a lot of sadness for his passing relative. Sadness is the abstract noun because it names feeling.

Singular Nouns A Singular Noun names one person, place, thing, or idea. Example: The cat was white and fluffy.

Plural Nouns A Plural Noun names more than one person, place, thing, or idea. Example: The cats were white and fluffy.

Possessive Nouns The possessive form of a noun shows ownership or relationship.

Possessive Nouns 2 Example: Noah’s teacher talked about spelling. Noah’s teacher is the relationship.

Compound Nouns Compound nouns are nouns made with two or more words. They are put together to make one single noun. Compound nouns are very descriptive and they usually describe themselves. They also help writers get a picture of what's going on.

Compound Nouns 2 Examples: bedroom (bed-room), weekend (week-end), popcorn (pop-corn), aircraft (air-craft), childhood (child-hood), textbook (text-book), Spongebob (sponge-bob), crankshaft (crank-shaft), birthday (birth-day), believeable (believe-able), oatmeal (oat-meal), cupcake (cup-cake), nothing (no-thing), Maxwell (max-well), cakewalk (cake-walk), Batman (bat-man).

Nouns as Subjects A Subject tells who or what a sentence is about Nouns are often subjects A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea Here are some examples, The mailman delivered our mail. The mailman is the subject in this sentence, it is also a noun. the mailman is a person. The pencil fell on the floor. The pencil is the subject in this sentence, it is also a noun. The pencil is a thing.

Nouns as Complements A complement is a word that completes the meaning of the verb. Three kinds of complements are predicate nouns, direct objects, and indirect objects. A predicate noun renames or defines the subject after a linking verb. Example: Carolyn Shoemaker is an astronomer. A direct object names the receiver of the action of the verb. Example: An indirect object tells whom or what or for whom or what an action is done.

Nouns in Phrases An object of a preposition is the noun or pronoun that follows the preposition. Nouns usually appear in sentences as objects of preposition. Nouns often appear in sentences as objects of prepositions.

Nouns in Phrases An appositive is a noun or pronoun that identifies or renames another noun or pronoun. An appositive phrase is made up of an appositive and its modifiers.