Nouns

Proper Nouns

Common Nouns

Concrete Nouns

Abstract Nouns

Collective Nouns

Compound Nouns

Nouns

• A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing or idea.

– Persons: Mrs. Platinsky, teacher, student

– Places: Lazar Middle School, classroom

– Things: desk, football

– Ideas: happiness, self-control, democracy

Common and Proper Nouns• A proper noun names a particular person,

place, thing or idea.

• A proper noun is always capitalized.

• A common noun names any one of a group of persons, places, things or ideas.– It generally is not capitalized.

Common and Proper Nouns

Common Nouns Proper Nouns

Girl Shari Platinsky

Writer Gary Paulsen

Country England

Monument Statue of Liberty

Team NY Giants

Book The Hunger Games

Religion Buddhism

Concrete and Abstract Nouns

• A concrete noun names something that can be recognized through any of the five senses (taste, touch, smell, sight, and hear)

• An abstract noun names something that cannot be recognized through the senses.

• An abstract noun names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic.

Concrete nouns poster, music, beans, heat, Florida

Abstract nouns love, fun, freedom, pride, beauty

Collective Nouns

COLLECTIVE NOUNS

Club Herd Army

Troop Orchestra Committee

class team group

• A collective noun names a group of people or things.

Compound Nouns• A compound noun is one noun made by

joining two or more words.

• Sometimes it is one combined word – cheerleader

• Sometimes it is two or more words – Robert R. Lazar Middle School