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NounsA person, place, or thing
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•The word noun comes from the latin word nomen, name, and that is what a noun does; it names.
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Mozart
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Chicago
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Epidermis
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•A noun can also be the name of a process, such as the beginning.
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•Proper nouns, like Mozart, are capitalized while common nouns, like epidermis, are not.
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rock
are names of objects
Concrete Nouns
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Abstract Nouns
freedom
are names of ideas
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•Nouns are singular if they describe individual things and plural if they describe multiple things (Boat/Boats)..
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•Noun sounds: words often have sounds that echo what they name; bang, slime, crash, trickle, drop, fuzz, and crunch—some of which can also be used as verbs—have an audible relationship to their objects.
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visage
A classic noun:
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•The common noun, visage, which indicates the face or the expression on the face, is a classic noun that’s been in literary use for centuries.
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•“This olde man gan loke on his visage.” -Chaucer, 1385
•“Give me a case to put my visage in”-Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
•“Mr. Patton’s granite visage seemed to lean toward me like a monument about to fall.”
-Robert Penn Warren, All The King’s Men