* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
Download Nouns- people, places, things or ideas
Grammatical gender wikipedia , lookup
Classical compound wikipedia , lookup
Latin syntax wikipedia , lookup
Comparison (grammar) wikipedia , lookup
Modern Hebrew grammar wikipedia , lookup
Portuguese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Lithuanian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Morphology (linguistics) wikipedia , lookup
Japanese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Ojibwe grammar wikipedia , lookup
Esperanto grammar wikipedia , lookup
Ukrainian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Zulu grammar wikipedia , lookup
Yiddish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Determiner phrase wikipedia , lookup
Sotho parts of speech wikipedia , lookup
Grammatical number wikipedia , lookup
Romanian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Turkish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Ancient Greek grammar wikipedia , lookup
Pipil grammar wikipedia , lookup
Old English grammar wikipedia , lookup
Modern Greek grammar wikipedia , lookup
Swedish grammar wikipedia , lookup
Proper noun wikipedia , lookup
Archaic Dutch declension wikipedia , lookup
Vietnamese grammar wikipedia , lookup
Old Norse morphology wikipedia , lookup
Serbo-Croatian grammar wikipedia , lookup
Latvian declension wikipedia , lookup
Compound (linguistics) wikipedia , lookup
Classifier (linguistics) wikipedia , lookup
Arabic nouns and adjectives wikipedia , lookup
Malay grammar wikipedia , lookup
Polish grammar wikipedia , lookup
French grammar wikipedia , lookup
Nouns- people, places, things or ideas Collective Nouns Nouns that refer to specific group of people or things. Nouns are always either common (nonspecific) or proper (specific). Proper nouns are always capitalized. Common Proper shoes Nike’s restaurant McDonalds woman Mrs. Jones Examples: herd, flock, city, school, class, jury, team General Plural Rules Nouns are either concrete (tangible) or abstract. concrete abstract lunches sheep love foxes ending in -ch, buzzes -sh, -x, or -z, dishes add -es pencil happiness car anger any ending Example: except -s or -ss, add -es ending in -y, babies change the y skies to i and add libraries -es hyphenated mothersnouns, add -s in-law to the noun Possessive Noun Rules words that end in -s or -z, the apostrophe can be used alone Paris’ Jesus’ Charles’ James’ words with mom’s all other end- cat’s ings, use Mike’s apostrophe then -s All You Ever Need To Know Grammar©2013 Nouns can either represent individual, countable items or represent abstract concepts or a collection that does not have an individual state of being. count noncount child/children news car/cars fun book/books mail Compound Nouns - nouns made up of two or more words. When these two separate words are put together, they form a single noun with a new meaning. Separate Words Hyphenated Words Combined Words hard drive cure-all congresswoman chief justice cha-cha network soft drink mother-in-law classroom Dollar Store Check a dictionary for the spelling of compound nouns. If a word is not listed, write it as two separate words. Created by Molly Blackburn