PRESENTATION ON PARTS OF SPEECH: Nouns

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Everything that you see, you can name...
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Look at the picture and in pairs, try to write down the name of as many
things as you can!
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Now in groups, try to classify the following
words:
ship
airline love
snow
audience man
snowflakes
Australia match
sock
banana milk
state
band monkey
suitcase
bed mountain
sunlight
bird movie
tablecloth
book music
team
building ocean
train
cat Pacific Ocean
Uncle Mike
clock phone
Walt Disney
country photograph
water
dog rain
wealth
rice
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All these words are
called NOUNS
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NOUNS are words that identify
• the whos (people)
• the wheres (places) and
• the whats (things or ideas)
in a sentence.
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George
pizza
courage
books
Antonio
Godzilla
All of these words are NOUNS.
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Read the sentence that follows:
George and Godzilla walked to Antonio's to
order a large pepperoni pizza .
George is a person.
Antonio's is a place.
Pizza is a thing.
Godzilla likes to think he's a person, is as big as a place, but
qualifies as another thing.
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Do you like apples?
They are not all the same,
right?
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Nouns are classified as:
• proper and common
• concrete and abstract
• countable and uncountable
• collective
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11. NOUNS.notebook March 02, 2013
List of nouns
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Remember:
NOUNS are words that name
people, places, things or ideas.
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Let's practice!
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