A noun is a part of speech that names people, places, things, qualities, or actions. Nouns can be classified into different categories based on their meaning and usage. Some of the main categories of nouns include common nouns, proper nouns, concrete nouns, abstract nouns, count nouns, and mass nouns. Nouns can also take different forms like singular, plural, possessive, compound, and attributive forms.

1. NOUN
 What is a Noun
 Part of speech or word class used to
 name or identify
 a person, place, thing, quality, or an action
 Most nouns have both singular and plural
forms
 Can be preceded by an article
 And/or have one or more adjectives
 Can serve as the head of a noun phrase

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3.  Noun
 A noun or noun phrase can function as a
 Subject
 Direct object
 Indirect object
 Complement
 Appositive
 Object of a preposition
 Nouns sometimes modify other nouns to
form compound nouns

4.  Noun Varieties
 Nouns come in these varieties
 Abstract, Attributive and Animate noun
 Common, Count, Concrete, Collective
 and Compound nouns
 Denominal, Inanimate, Mass, Proper and
 Possessive Nouns

5.  Noun Categories
 Noun categories overlap
 Possible for a noun to be more than one
 For example: -
 Dog is common and concrete
 Butterfly is common, concrete and compound

6. Noun Varieties
 Common nouns
 Refers to
 Not unique and has no defining
characteristics
 Desk, chair, girl, city, food

7.  Proper nouns
 Refers to
 Unique person, place, thing, or idea
 Defining characteristics
 Always written with first letter capitalized
 Mayaguez, John, Barbara, New York City,
Rice-a-Roni

8.  Concrete Nouns:
 Can be perceived by at least one of the five
senses
 (sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste).
 Chair, John

9.  Abstract Nouns:
 Cannot be perceived by any of the five
senses
 (emotions, ideas, event, quality or
concepts)
 Freedom, love, sadness, courage

10.  Collective Nouns
 Refers to Single noun that indicates or refers to
more than one
 Groups of people or Things
 Family, team, club, audience, herd, crowd

11.  Animate noun
 A semantic category of noun
 Referring to person, animal or other creature
 Contrast with inanimate noun
 Examples of animate nouns
 Katie, Marcus, Elephant, Baby

12.  Inanimate noun
 A semantic category of noun
 Refers to a place, thing or idea
 Not a person, animal or other creature
 Contrast with animate noun
 Examples of inanimate nouns
 Road, mountain, bicycle, relaxation, rain

13.  Attributive noun
 Noun that modifies another noun
 Functions as an adjective
 Also known as noun adjunct
 Birthday party, Tomato soup, Oxford comma
 Stone wall, Macaroni salad

14.  Compound Noun:
 A single noun formed by two or more words
 Time capsule, Christmas tree
 Can be together, separate, or divided by hyphen (-)
 Great-uncle, Mother-in-law
 Two or more nouns that function as a single unit
◦ Basketball, Butterfly

15.  Possessive Nouns
 In grammar, possession shows ownership
 Follow these rules to create possessive nouns
With singular nouns, add an apostrophe and an s.
 dog → dog’s bone
 singer → singer’s voice

16.  Possessive Nouns
Plurals ending in s add an apostrophe after the s
 dogs → dogs’ bones
 singers → singers’ voices
Plurals not ending in s, add an apostrophe and an s
 men → men’s books
 mice → mice’s tails

17.  Count Nouns
 Noun that refers to an object or idea
 Can form a plural or occur in a noun phrase with
an indefinite article or with numerals
 Contrast with mass noun (non-count noun)
 Most common nouns in English are countable
 They have both singular and plural forms
 Coin, raindrop, banana, hill, name

18.  Count Nouns
 Guidelines for creating Count nouns
◦ Add s to form the plural of most nouns
 cat → cats
 computer → computers
◦ Add es if the noun ends in s, sh, ch, or x
 wish → wishes
 inch → inches
 box → boxes

19. •Count Nouns
• If a noun ends in consonant y
• change the y to i and add es
• city → cities
• lady → ladies
• If a noun ends in vowel y add s
• Words ending in -quy don’t follow this rule
• essay → essays
• monkey → monkeys

20.  Mass noun
 A mass Noun that names things
 that cannot be counted
 Used only in the singular
 Many abstract nouns are uncountable
 But not all uncountable nouns are abstract
 Contrast with count noun
 advice, bread, knowledge, luck, spaghetti,
money, peace, rain, milk, and work

21.  Denominal noun
 Noun that is formed from another noun
 usually by adding a suffix
 Many denominal nouns are context sensitive
 Villager (from village)
 New Yorker (from New York)
 Booklet (from book)
 Limeade (from lime)
 Lectureship (from lecture)
 Librarian (from library)

22. Review
A noun is:
a. An action word
b. A naming word
c. A describing word
A noun names: (choose three)
a. a place
b. a verb
c. a thing
d. a sentence
e. a person

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