By:
Angélica Guerra, MS
Greater Miami Adventist Academy
Kinds of Nouns – Lesson 1
CONCRETE & ABSTRACT
COMMON & PROPER
1. CONCRETE:
A noun that names
something that can be
experienced with the senses
(can be seen, heard, tasted,
or touched)
1. COMMON:
Refers to ANY person, place,
thing, or idea.
2. ABSTRACT:
A noun that names an idea,
a quality, or a feeling.
2. PROPER:
Names a PARTICULAR
person,
Place, thing, or idea. Always
capitalized. If it contains
more than 1 word, capitalize
all important words.
Collective & Compound Nouns - 2
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
• Refers to a GROUP
of people, animals,
or things.
• a bunch of grapes
• a flock of birds
• the baseball team
COMPOUND NOUNS
• Two or more words
used as a single
noun.
• Can be written as a
single word:
watermelon
separate words:
Miami Beach
hyphenated words:
father-in-law
• A word or phrase that comes RIGHT AFTER the
noun it explains or identifies.
• They are set apart from the rest of the sentence
by commas or parentheses.
• They can be serious, scientific, funny, etc.
• When the appositive is needed to identify the
noun it follows, don’t use commas.
• My cousin Stephanie always goes to the
beach with me.
SINGULAR & PLURAL NOUNS - 3
• A SINGULAR NOUN:
•Names ONE person, place, thing, or idea
• A PLURAL NOUN:
•Names MORE THAN ONE person, place,
thing, or idea
Check and memorize rules on pages 90 & 91
for Regular Forms and Irregular Forms.
• Possessive Noun: A noun that shows
ownership (or possession)
• Possessive forms replace the word OF
or the verb HAVE:
• Legs of the table = table’s legs
• The dog has a bone. = the dog’s bone
• For a singular noun, add an apostrophe and –s (‘s)
-- Anna’s purse
-- James’s car
• For a plural nouns that ends in s, add an apostrophe ONLY (‘).
-- The students’ books
--animals’ babies
• For a plural noun that does not end in s, add an apostrophe
and –s (‘s).
-- children’s toys
--mice’s cheese
• For a compound noun, add an apostrophe (‘) and –s (‘s) to the
end of the compound.
-- mother-in-law’s shoes
--the rainbow’s colors
• If 2 or more people own a single thing, place the apostrophe
after the last person’s name.
-- Ana and Peter’s dog
• If each owns a thing separately, make each noun possessive.
-- Ana’s and Peter’s dogs