1. The Basic Building Blocks of Grammar
Nouns!!!
The Basic Building Blocks of Grammar

2. What are Nouns? A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea. Examples:
Person: Mr. Fern, boy, girl, dad, doctor.
Place: America, Europe, valley, mountain, school.
Thing: dog, cat, notebook, computer.
Idea: Freedom, gratitude, love, friendship.

3. Proper vs. Common Nouns Proper Noun Common Noun
Names of particular people, places, things, or ideas.
Always capitalized!!!
Examples: Morgan, Poppy, Flagstaff.
Common Noun
Names people, places, thing, or ideas that are general.
Never capitalized!!!
Examples: girl, dog, town.

4. Concrete vs. Abstract Nouns
Concrete Noun
Nouns that you can experience with at least one of your five senses.
If you can touch or see it… it’s a concrete noun.
Examples: table, pencil, window.
Abstract Noun
Names of ideas and things that you cannot touch.
Examples: thoughts, friendship.

5. Examples: tortilla wedding ring gorilla desk pencil rain money fart
CONCRETE
ABSTRACT
tortilla
wedding ring
gorilla
desk
pencil
rain
money
fart
tooth
car
conflict
love
goals
thought
dream
jealousy
fear
greed
admiration
heaven

6. Compound Nouns
Compound nouns are nouns that consist of two or more words.
They occur in three different ways:
Multiple words that run together: cookbook, seaweed.
Hyphenated words: ninety-one
Words that are separated: North America, Nile River, sea urchin.

7. Possessive Noun
A possessive noun is a noun indicating ownership (or possession).
These words usually to have an apostrophe followed by an “s” at the end of the word if the noun is singular!
Examples: The dog’s bone, Dave’s house.
Plural possessives only have the apostrophe after the word.
Example: The kittens’ bowl

8. What does the collective noun “gaggle” refer to?
Names of groups of people, animals, or things.
Examples: herd, family, flock, team.
What does the collective noun “gaggle” refer to?

9. Collective vs. Plural
They seem similar, but they are completely different.
Plural nouns reference multiple nouns while a collective noun references an entire group of something.
The marines ran up the hill vs. The platoon ran up the hill.
The players were warming up for the game vs. the team was warming up for the game.
The birds were migrating south for the winter vs. the flock of birds were flying south for the winter.