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G.L. 7 - Concrete, Abstract, and Collective Nouns • Concrete noun: names a person, place, or thing; can be common or proper • Abstract noun: names something that cannot be seen or touched, it names something you can think about • Collective noun: names a collection of persons, places, animals, or things G.L. 8 - Helping Verbs • Every predicate contains a verb • The main verb may have one or more helping verbs • The main verb shows the action, the helping verbs do not show action, but they help to form the verb tense • Is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been, has, have, had, may, might, must, can, could, do, does, did, shall, will, should, would G.L. 9 - Singular, Plural, Compound, and Possessive Nouns/ Noun Gender • Singular or plural: nouns are either singular or plural • Singular noun: names only one person, place, or thing • Plural noun: names more than one person, place, or thing Compound and Possessive • Compound nouns: made up of two or more words, sometimes written as one word (classroom), often we write them as two words (snow tire), some are hyphenated (brother-in-law) • Possessive nouns: tell “who” or “what” owns something, can be singular or plural, have an apostrophe and an s added to them (Sam’s) • Usually only an apostrophe is added to plural nouns when they end with the letter s (elephants’) Noun Gender • • • • • • We also group nouns according to gender In English, there are four genders: Masculine- uncle, brother, buck Feminine- aunt, sister, doe Indefinite (either sex)- sibling, horse, deer Neuter (no sex)-socks, desk, bicycle