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