1. Part of Speech: Noun Definition: a person, place, thing or an idea

2. Persons Carpenter, tourists, team, cousins, Eli Manning

3. Places Cities, theatres, forest, neighborhood, Houston

4. Things Merry-go-round, baseball bat, birds, Liberty Bell

5. Ideas Justice, creativity, self-control, opinions, Buddhism

6. Two Types of Nouns Common: name any one of a group of persons, places, things or ideas i.e.: woman, nation, event, holiday, language Proper: Names a particular person, place thing or idea (capitalized) ie: Laura Bush, Egypt, French revolution, Fourth of July, Latin

7. Concrete and abstract Concrete Noun: name a person, place, thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses Abstract noun: name of an idea, feeling quality or a characteristic

8. Collective nouns In the singular form, name of a group ie: jury, band, family, class, flock, committee

9. Compound Noun Consists of two or more words that together name a person, place, thing or an idea ie: single word: stairway, bookcase, toenail, Newfoundland Separate word: Ceiling fan, blue jay, baseball bat Hyphenated Words: sister-in-law, great-uncle, stick- in-the-mud

10. Pronouns Takes the place of one or more nouns or pronouns *More on this later*

11. Verb Expresses action or a state of being Main verb Helping verb

12. Forms of Be Forms of Have Forms of Do Modals (can, could may, might, must, should, would, will) Modal: Helping verb that is joined with a main verb to express an attitude such as necessity or possibility

13. Action & Linking Action verb: expresses either physical or mental activity Linking verb: connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject.