1. Noun identification
2. Count, Mass, and Collective Nouns
3. Plural and Possessive Nouns
Noun Identification
What is a noun?
A noun is a person, place, thing, quality, animal, idea or activity.
For example:Person — Maria
Place — Detroit
Thing — Desk
Quality — Width
Animal — Dog
Idea — Independence
Activity — Navigation
Spot the nouns in a sentence:
Maria went into the city to purchase detergent.
Nouns:
Person — Maria
Place — City
Thing — Detergent
The functions of nouns:
Nouns sometimes function differently in sentences.
For example:
Subject: Maria likes ice cream
Object of Preposition: He gave the ice cream to Maria
Subject complement: The best customer is Maria
Grammar vocabulary:
Nominal means any word, or group of words, used as a noun. The nominal word used in the original noun example is Maria.
Types of Nouns:
The names of specific things, places, and people, like Maria or Detroit, are Proper nouns.
General, colloquial names, like table or house are Common nouns. Common nouns can either be concrete, or abstract.
When an object is concrete i.e. you can see it and touch it, like a phone or a chair, it is a Concrete noun.
When it is a quality or idea, like freedom or justice, it is an Abstract noun.
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