1. Types of
Nouns

2. Common and Proper Nouns
Proper nouns are the names of people,
places, things or ideas. They are always
capitalized.
Common nouns are the general names for
persons, places, things or ideas.
Common=girl Proper=Jennifer

3. Common and Proper
 Common Proper
Person friend Melanie
Place country Australia
Thing television Sony
Idea happiness

4. Nouns can be
 Concrete
 Abstract

5. Concrete Nouns
 Can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted or
touched
 Like:rainbows, dogs, cats, houses, leaves,
Thunder, etc.

6. Abstract Nouns
 Are feelings,
happiness
 ideas,
freedom
 qualities or characteristics.
beauty, humor or greed

7. All nouns fit into each of the
categories
 For example:
 supermarket is common and concrete
 Safeway is concrete and proper

8. Collective Nouns
 Are words that name groups

9. Like…

10. Collective nouns…
 Act like singular nouns.
 For example, you would write:
 The tribe is small.
 The faculty is large.
In both sentences, you use a singular verb
because the collective noun is technically
singular even though it is talking about more
than one person.