1. EQ: What are important things to know about nouns and adjectives?

2. Noun
A noun is a part of speech that denotes a person, animal, place, thing, or idea.

3. Proper Noun
Specific name of a person, place, thing and is always capitalized
common noun proper noun
girl Mary

4. Pronouns Subcategory of nouns; they take the place of nouns
Ex: he, she, we, I, me, who, yours, they, etc..
Imagine this. Joe said that Joe was going to work really hard and we would see Joe on American Ninja Warrior as Joe hit the button before the time ran out.
Joe said that he was going to work really hard and we would see him on American Ninja Warrior as he hit the button before the time ran out.

5. Concrete noun
A noun that can be touched or sensed
The tree is green.

6. Abstract noun*** A noun that can not be touched, or sensed
Her courage is what saved her unit’s lives.
*** abstract nouns often confuse students.

7. Possessive nouns
Possessive nouns are nouns which possess something; meaning they have something
Most of the time we just add an apostrophe and an s at the end (‘s)
The dog’s toy was squeaky.

8. Possessive nouns
However if there already is an s, the you just add an apostrophe after the s
The mean stepsisters’ hearts were ugly inside.

9. Plural nouns regular When there is more than 1
When there is more then one of the noun and we can just add an s or es, it is considered a regular noun (translated, it is easy to make plural)

10. Plural nouns regular When there is more than 1
We can mostly just add an s to the word
Ex orange-oranges, book-books, dog-dogs

11. Plural nouns regular When there is more than 1
If the noun ends in ‑s, -ss, -sh, -ch, -x, or -z, add ‑es
Church-churches, bus-buses, dress-dresses

12. Plural nouns irregular common irregulars
If it ends in f or fe, change to ves
life-lives, wife-wives, calf-calves, leaf-leaves
Ends in o, add an es
Potato-potatoes, tomato-tomatoes, hero-heroes

13. Plural nouns irregular vowels (a, e, i, o, u, sometimes y)
If it has a double vowel, chances are both of them change
Tooth-teeth, foot-feet, goose-geese
Sometimes just the single vowel changes
Man-men, woman-women

14. Plural nouns irregular completely random and no change
Some just have no rule/pattern and you have to memorize them
Child-children, person-people, die-dice, mouse-mice
Some do not change at all whether there is one or multiple
Sheep, deer, moose, etc.. (tends to be animals but not always)

15. Plural nouns irregular with a y at the end
If a noun ends in a y, drop the y and make it an ies
City-Cities, party-parties, candy-candies
But if the y is after a vowel, just add the s
Ray-rays, play-plays

16. adjectives
Adjectives are words that describe the qualities or states of being of nouns: enormous, doglike, silly, yellow, fun, fast. They can also describe the quantity of nouns: many, few, millions, eleven.

17. adjective
Separate several adjectives with a comma or conjunction

18. adjective
Comes in three types;
Absolute, comparative, superlative

19. adjective
Absolute
Just describes something
A messy desk, a cold drink

20. adjective comparative Makes a favorable comparison of the noun
A messier desk, a colder drink

21. adjective Superlative Highest degree of the adjective
A messiest desk, a coldest drink

22. Adjective order The red large apple? The large red apple?
The round cute old ball?
The cute old round ball?

23. Adjective order Opinion, size, age, shape, color, quantity
The large red apple?
The cute old round ball?