Nouns

Nouns  name persons, places, objects, feelings or events.

 

Examples:

PERSONS                      PLACES                             OBJECTS

students                        Quezon City                      computer

Annie                             school                               cell phone

vendors                          auditorium                        balloon

Mrs. De la Cruz               SM Mall of Asia                  pencil

 

 

FEELINGS                             EVENTS

 

happiness                           birthday

anxiety                               Family Day

symphathy                         concert

excitement                         Halloween party

 

ALL ABOUT NOUNS

  1. A COMMON NOUN names general items while a PROPER NOUN refers to specific names of persons, places, objects, or events.

 

Examples:

COMMON NOUNS                   PROPER NOUNS

restaurant                              Max’s

university                               University of the Philippines

enator                                    Manny Pacquiao

shoes                                     Nike

watch                                     Casio

movie                                     Beauty and the Beast

mall                                       SM Mall of Asia

country                                   Philippines

 

 

CONCRETE versus ABSTRACT

Which among the words listed below can you see, hear, taste, touch or smell?

  1. taxi
  2. help
  3. education
  4. promise
  5. cloud
  6. smoke
  7. love
  8. statue
  9. parents
  10. mouse
  11. beauty
  12. brain

All the words that you can see, hear, taste, touch or smell are called CONCRETE NOUNS like taxi, cloud, smoke, statue, parents, mouse and brain.

All the words that you can understand although you cannot perceive with your senses are called ABSTRACT NOUNS like help, education, promise, love, and beauty.

COUNT, MASS and COLLECTIVE Nouns     

Examples of COUNT Nouns are bird, client, cookie, letter, school, two birds, thirty clients, five cookies, three letters, and four schools.

Entities that you cannot count are called MASS nouns are oxygen, gravel, money, sunshine, music, and furniture.

COLLECTIVE nouns, on the other hand, are words used to name a group of objects. Examples are class, bouquet, band, flock, bunch, empire, squadron, and troop.

 

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