The word that names a particular person

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— word that names a person, place, thing, or idea

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* Girl * Switch * Hobby * Life * Goose * Fish * Girls (most add –s) * Switches (add –es for endings in s, ch, sh, x, z) * Hobbies (change y to i & add –es) * Lives (ending in f or fe, change f to v & add –s or –es) * Geese (irregular plural) * Fish (some don’t change)

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* 1. star * 2. trout * 3. half * 4. joy * 5. waltz * 6. mystery * 7. flash * 8. tooth * 9. box * 10. onion

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* 1. stars * 2. trout * 3. halves * 4. joys * 5. waltzes * 6. mysteries * 7. flashes * 8. teeth * 9. boxes * 10. onions

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—can show possession, ownership, or the general relationship between two nouns —add an apostrophe and –s to form the possessive of any singular noun —use just an apostrophe to form the possessive of a plural noun that ends in s —add an apostrophe and –s to form the possessive of plural noun that doesn’t end in s

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Plural Possessive Examples The kittens’ tails Her dresses’ collars The wives’ speeches The cookies’ decorations The stories’ villains The watches’ batteries Singular Possessive Examples The kitten’s tail Her dress’s collar The wife’s speech The cookie’s decoration The story’s villain The watch’s battery

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PRACTICE POSSESSIVE NOUNS Rewrite each phrase using the possessive form of the noun in parentheses.

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* Noun made of two or more words * May be open, hyphenated, or closed * EXAMPLES OPENgray fox, press secretary, line of sight HYPHENATEDmother-in-law, tenth-grader, good-bye CLOSEDfolksinger, headlight, postmaster

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* EXAMPLES CONCRETEair, melody, stone, aroma, heat ABSTRACTattitude, dignity, loyalty, sadness * Concrete names an object that occupies space or can be recognized by any of the senses * Abstract names an idea, a quality, or a characteristic

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* EXAMPLES COMMONartist, uncle, country, lake, shuttle, vehicle, religion PROPERMichelangelo, Uncle Louis, Mexico, Lake Superior, Jeep, Judaism * Common is the general – not the particular – name of a person, place, thing, or idea. * Proper is the name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea. A proper noun is capitalized.

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1. Homer’s Odyssey is an epic poem. 2. Who is the Steelers’ new quarterback? 3. Victoria saw Mrs. Ramos fall and helped her up. 4. Honesty is one of Andy’s best qualities. 5. One goal for good health is to drink eight glasses of water every day. 6. Bessie Coleman was the first African American female pilot. 7. Like any explorer, astronauts cherish the hope of discovering a new world. 8. Has Mickey ever written a song? 9. The vision of Chief Wilma Mankiller is to lead the Cherokee Nation to self-reliance. 10. The language we call Old English was spoken during the Middle Ages.

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1. Proper: Homer’s, Odyssey6. Proper: Bessie Coleman Common: poem –concrete Common: pilot -concrete 2. Proper: Steelers’7. Common: explorer -concrete Common: quarterback –concrete astronauts -concrete 3. Proper: Victoria, Mrs. Ramos hope -abstract 4. Proper: Andy’s world -concrete Common: honesty –abstract8. Proper: Mickey qualities –abstract Common: song -concrete 5. Common: goal –abstract9. Proper: Chief Wilma Mankiller, health –abstract Cherokee Nation glasses –concrete Common: vision -abstract water –concrete self-reliance -abstract day –concrete10. Proper: Old English, Middle Ages Common: language -concrete

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* Singular in form but names a group * Sometimes considered singular and sometimes plural * EXAMPLES FamilyHerdCompanyBandTeam AudienceTroopCommitteeJuryFlock

There are four kinds of nouns in English; Proper noun, Common noun, Abstract noun, and Collective noun.

Apart from the above, we can also classify them as:

• Abstract and Concrete nouns
• Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Before we proceed further, it is important to know – what is a noun?

NOUNS

There are eight parts of speech in the English language and noun is one of them.

A noun is the name of a person, place, or thing. It may also name a feeling or idea.

For example, the words boy, girls, George, New York, Everest, hospital, river, army, beauty, love, kind are all nouns. In short, we can say that a noun is a naming word, or a noun is the name of anything.

PROPER NOUNS

A proper noun is the one that names a particular person, place, or thing.

The word ‘proper’ means ‘one’s own’. Hence a Proper name is a person’s own name.

Examples of proper nouns are:

• Sachin, Robert, Abraham, Monika, Susan, etc. names a particular person.
• Jaipur, Chicago, Mexico, London, Moscow, etc. names a particular place.
• Everest, Ganga, Titanic, January, Sunday, etc. names a particular thing.

A proper noun always begins with a capital letter.Some examples of proper nouns are the names of persons, villages, towns, cities, countries, monuments, rivers, ships, mountains, months of the year, days of the week, festivals, books, etc.

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COMMON NOUNS

A common noun is the one that gives a common name to persons, places, or things of the same kind.

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A common noun is a name given in common to every person or thing of the same kind.

The word ‘common’ here means ‘shared by all’.

The words book, pen, river, mountain, train, bird, animal, city are all examples of common nouns. Ganga, Nile, Amazon are the name of rivers. The word river is a common noun. It is the name shared by all the three. But Ganga is the name of a particular river flowing in India. So, the word Ganga is a proper noun. Similarly, the word Nile and Amazon are also proper nouns.

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ABSTRACT NOUNS

An abstract noun is the name of any state, quality, action, or feeling that we can only think of or feel but cannot touch or see.

The word ‘abstract’ here means ‘existing in thought’.

So, words like heat, beauty, truth, love, anger, height, are all examples of abstract nouns. We can feel the heat, but we cannot touch or see it. What we touch or see is a hot object and not heat. Similarly, we can think of love, but we cannot see or touch love.

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COLLECTIVE NOUNS

A Collective noun is the name of a collection of persons or things taken together and spoken as one whole.

Some examples of collective nouns are crowd, mob, team, flock, herd, army, fleet, nation, bunch, pack, etc.

Some more examples of collective nouns with respect to people, animal, and things:

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ABSTRACT AND CONCRETE NOUN

We can also classify nouns as abstract and concrete.

Abstract nouns name feelings (hate, love), qualities (courage, softness), states of mind (hope, trust), or ideas (education, knowledge). All these words have no physical form that we may touch or see. They exist in thoughts only.

Whereas, concrete nouns stand for something that we can see or touch, something that has a physical form, something that occupies space and has mass. Concrete nouns usually refer to animals (tiger, bird), people (engineer, leader), places (hospital, office), and things (watch, table, pen).

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUN

To state simply, the things which we can count are countable nouns and the one which we cannot count are uncountable nouns.

Words ball, boy, bird, dogs, kite, pen, table, computer, chairs, girl, etc. are examples of countable nouns. They have both singulars and plural forms. Whereas, words milk, air, light, love, honesty, courage, education, etc. are examples of uncountable nouns. They have a singular form, but no plural.

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