NOUNS CHAPTER 2

WHAT ARE THEY? Nouns name a person, place, thing, or idea. Nouns can be singular or plural. Nouns can be possessive. Nouns can be common or proper. Nouns can be count or non-count. Nouns can be collective or compound.

SINGULAR OR PLURAL Singular nouns name one thing. Plural nouns name more than one thing. Confused? Check pg or the following video:

SHOWING POSSESSION Possession simply means that a noun belongs to someone. We add an apostrophe (‘) and an (s) The order we add these in depends on whether a word is singular or plural. For a singular noun, ADD (‘) and then (s). The bowl of the cat. The cat’s bowl For a plural noun, you probably have already added an (s) to make the noun plural, so then we only add the apostrophe to who possession. The bowl of the cats. The cats’ bowl. Two exceptions are Jesus and Moses. They do not need and additional (s): Jesus’ book, Moses’ book

COMMON OR PROPER Common nouns name a non-specific person, place, thing, or idea. Proper nouns name a specific person, place thing or idea. Example: That boy is Joe. Joe is capitalized because he is a specific boy. We do not capitalize boy because there are many boys in the world.

COUNT OR NONCOUNT Count nouns are things that we can count and that can be made plural. We can determine how many of the item we are discussing. Noncount nouns are things that we cannot count. They are always singular in form.

COLLECTIVE Collective nouns name a group. A collective noun can be either singular or plural in meaning, but it is singular in form.

COMPOUND Compound nouns are made by combining two or more nouns. To form the plural of the compound noun, change the meaning of the most important word.

NOUNS HAVE A PURPOSE IN A SENTENCE Every noun in a sentence has a job! Nouns can be: The SUBJECT The PREDICATE NOUN The DIRECT OBJECT The OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION A NOUN OF DIRECT ADDRESS An APPOSITIVE The trick is to determine what the noun is doing in the sentence.

A NOUN AS A SUBJECT The subject is who or what a sentence is about; the predicate is what the noun subject is doing.

A NOUN AS A PREDICATE NOUN Predicate nouns RENAME the subject in a sentence with a linking verb. Linking verbs LINK the subject to either a PREDICATE NOUN or PREDICATE ADJECTIVE. A PREDICATE NOUN is a noun.

A NOUN AS A DIRECT OBJECT A direct object appears after a transitive verb and receives the action of the verb. It answers the question what? Or whom?

A NOUN AS THE OBJECT OF A PREPOSITION Prepositions describe the position of one thing in reference to another thing. So the Preposition much have an object to link to the other thing.

A NOUN OF DIRECT ADDRESS A noun that names the person to whom you are speaking is called a noun or direct address. We use a comma or commas to set off a noun of direct address. The direct address can come at any point during the sentence. Mark, you have a box in the hallway. In the hallway, Mark, there is a box for you. In the hallway is a box for you, Mark.

A NOUN AS AN APPOSITIVE A word or phrase that follows a noun or pronoun and renames it is called an appositive. ***ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT POSITIVELY DESCRIBES THE NOUN RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT. ***