1. Nouns Review

2. Nouns A noun is a person, place, thing, or idea, or quality.

3. Examples Person: people Can be in general or specific people. Aunts, uncles, golfer, shopkeeper, musician, Uncle Joe

4. Place Can be general or specific: Forest, school, house Shenandoah National Forest, Briar Woods High School, White House

5. Thing Can be any things. Chair, door, pencil, car, yard, dog, cat, water

6. Idea/Quality Examples of ideas (these are not something you can touch, but they still exist): Hunger, jealousy, hope, happiness, sad, freedom, pride

7. Concrete vs. Abstract Nouns can be classified into two type: concrete and abstract. Concrete nouns are words that can be touched or seen (think like the word says – you can touch concrete) chairs, dog, etc. Abstract nouns are words that have no physical body, such as ideals (hope, freedom, pride)

8. Common and Proper nouns Common nouns are run of the mill normal nouns that name unspecific items: such as table, dog, house, yard. Proper nouns name something specific and are usually capitalized with use: White House, Uncle Joe, Washington, D.C., Briar Woods High School.

9. Count vs. noncount nouns Count nouns are nouns that can have a quantity added to them. Dogs, cats, pencils, phones. Non count nouns are nouns who don’t have a quantity. Software, deer, music, heat. (You don’t add an “s” to these).

10. Collective Nouns Nouns that signify a group of some kind: Herd of deer, acting troupe, murder of crows, track team, flock of geese

11. Assignments Worksheet packet next (YAY) Quiz on nouns (need to know definitions and how to pick out examples) on Thursday.