Download Grammar Name Date A noun is a word that names a person, place

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Nouns
A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. Nouns can be further
broken down into five categories:
1. Concrete nouns are nouns that name people, places, and things that can be experienced
with the five senses.
2. Abstract nouns name things and ideas that cannot be experienced with the five senses.
3. Proper nouns are nouns that name a specific person, place, thing, or idea, and are
capitalized.
4. Compound nouns are two or more words that together name a single person, place, thing
or idea. Sometimes the words are jammed together to form one word, as in toothpick. At
other times the two nouns are separated by a space, as in vice president. Finally, words
may be strung together and separated by hyphens, as in merry-go-round.
5. Collective nouns are nouns that name a group of persons and things, but are singular in
form. Examples include herd, class, jury, audience, family, etc.
And yes, there are also common nouns, but four of the five categories above take care of them.
Unlike verbs, which appear only once in a simple sentence, you may have many nouns
in a single sentence, and each one might be serving a particular purpose. Look at the following
sentence:
My brother, a famous chef, gave my aunt the recipe for the casserole.
In this sentence, there are four nouns, but each has a different part to play in the sentence:
• brother is the subject of the sentence; the subject performs the action of the verb
• recipe is the direct object; the direct object receives the verb’s action directly
• aunt is the indirect object; the indirect object receives the action of the verb, but
indirectly
• casserole is the object of the preposition for; an object of the preposition has a
relationship with some other word in the sentence, as determined by the preposition
• chef is an appositive in the appositive phrase “a famous chef”; an appositive directly
follows a noun or pronoun and says something further about it
So just remember that as you identify nouns, you might need to be a bit more thorough in your
searching.