Word that names particular person place or thing

common noun

What is a particular person place thing or idea?

Proper noun – names a particular person, place, thing, or idea.

What part of speech is a person place or thing?

noun

What compares more than two things or actions?

The comparative form is used to compare two things, and the superlative form is used to compare three or more things. The comparative and superlative forms of most one and two syllable adjectives or adverbs are formed using the endings -er and -est.

What are the three types of comparison?

They are used to show what is different or similar about two or more things. There are three kinds of possible comparisons: equal, comparative and superlative.

What are the two types of comparison?

The comparative form is used to compare two people, ideas, or things. The superlative form with the word “the” is used to compare three or more. Comparatives and superlatives are often used in writing to hedge or boost language.

What type of word is comparison?

noun. the act of comparing. the state of being compared. a likening; illustration by similitude; comparative estimate or statement.

Is comparison good or bad?

It’s not good if we’re just trying to gain a sense of superiority or avoiding challenging ourselves to do better. But such downward comparisons can remind us of our own fortune. They can also help us when we think about the things we regret but we cannot change.

What are the dangers of comparison?

By comparing ourselves to others we’re negating our own road and demanding that the past be different than what it was. The demands we place on ourselves to be like those we’re comparing ourselves may sometimes be motivations for change, however they are more likely to lead to feelings of diminished self-worth.

Why is it bad to compare with others?

Not only are we unhappy but the other people are as well. They are probably comparing themselves to you—maybe you’re better at networking than they are and they’re jealous. At worst, when we compare ourselves to others we end up focusing our energy on bringing them down instead of raising ourselves up.

Why you shouldn’t compare your success to others?

When we’re on our journey to success we often peek into other peoples lane and observe their level of success. We look over and compare what they’re doing to what we’re doing and critique ourselves as if we’re doing something wrong. By doing this you are slowing down your progress and limiting your focus.

How do you stop comparing success to others?

8 Practical Ways to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others

1. Practice gratitude.
2. Unlock the power of contentment.
3. Don’t compare your life to everyone else’s highlight reel.
4. Focus on your strengths.
5. Celebrate other people.
6. Learn to compete with yourself instead of others.

Should we compare your life with others?

Comparing ourselves to others will always rob us of gratitude, joy, and fulfillment. But even more than than, it prevents us from fully living our lives. It calls us to envy someone else’s life and seek theirs rather than ours. It robs us of our most precious possession: life itself.

Why compare yourself with others quote?

“Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don’t waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace.

What is a comparison quote?

25 Inspirational Quotes On Comparison

• 5. “ Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other people.” Anonymous.
• 10. “ Comparison with myself brings improvement, comparison with others brings discontent.” Betty Jamie Chung.
• 15. “
• 20. “
• “Never compare your journey with someone else’s.

What is a good motivational quote?

Motivational Quotes for Entrepreneurs

• “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney.
• “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain.
• “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.
• “Don’t limit yourself.
• “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.

What is the most motivational quote ever?

The Most Motivating Quotes Ever

• When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.
• Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
• A man can be as great as he wants to be.
• Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what.

What are some wise words?

19 Wise Quotes for a Better Life

• Be confident in yourself. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.” —
• Always be looking forward. “You can never plan the future by the past.” —
• Live a life of purpose.
• Be brave.
• Use your time wisely.
• Value yourself for who you are.
• Hone your skills.
• Keep your head up.

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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— 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

Nouns make up the largest class of words in most languages, including English. A noun is a word that refers to a thing (book), a person (Noah Webster), an animal (cat), a place (Omaha), a quality (softness), an idea (justice), or an action (yodeling). It’s usually a single word, but not always: cake, shoes, school bus, and time and a half are all nouns.

There are a number of different categories of nouns.

There are common nouns and proper nouns. A common noun refers to a person, place, or thing but is not the name of a particular person, place, or thing. Examples are animal, sunlight, and happiness. A proper noun is the name of a particular person, place, or thing; it usually begins with a capital letter: Abraham Lincoln, Argentina, and World War I are all proper nouns.

A collective noun is a noun that names a group of people or things, such as flock or squad. It’s sometimes unclear whether the verb for a collective noun should be singular or plural. In the United States, such nouns as company, team, herd, public, and class, as well as the names of companies, teams, etc., are treated as singular, but in the United Kingdom they are often treated as plural: (US) «The team has been doing well this season.» vs. (British) «The team have been doing well this season.»

Gerunds are nouns that are identical to the present participle (-ing form) of a verb, as in «I enjoy swimming more than running.«

An attributive noun is a noun that modifies another noun that immediately follows it, such as business in business meeting. These nouns look like adjectives but they’re not.

For learners of English, the most important feature of a noun is whether it can be counted. A count noun is a noun that can be used after a or an or after a number (or another word that means «more than one»). Count nouns have both singular and plural forms and can be used with both singular and plural verb forms, as with the word letter in «A letter for you is on the table. Letters for you arrive regularly.» Sometimes the plural form of a count noun is the same as its singular form, as in «I saw a deer in my yard yesterday. There are a lot of deer in the woods near my house.»

A mass noun (or noncount noun) refers to something that cannot be counted. Mass nouns are normally not used after the words a or an or after a number. They have only one form and are used with singular verb forms, as in «Portuguese is one of the languages they speak,» and «The information was unclear.»

Some nouns are not count or mass nouns. Nouns which only ever refer to one thing are called singular nouns: «Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun,» «We heard a terrible din in the alley.» And a plural noun refers to more than one person or thing, or sometimes to something that has two main parts. Plural nouns have only one form and are used with plural verb forms: «Townspeople are invited to a forum on the project,» «These scissors are dull.»

A particular noun can have any or all of these kinds of uses.

(count) I’ve read that book several times.

(mass) Time seemed to stop when I saw him for the first time.

(singular) The time is 3:22.

(plural) Fuel costs three times as much as it did five years ago.

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