Nouns
&
Kinds of
Nouns
Definition
A NOUN is a word that names a
person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
thing
person
?
idea
place
Person
 A noun can name a person by name:
 A noun can name a kind of a person:
Place
 A noun can name a place:
A noun can name a kind of place:
Thing
 A noun can name a thing
A noun can name a kind of thing:
IDEA?
Why can’t we identify the idea in this picture?
Ideas are thoughts
and cannot be
seen. Examples of
ideas include
happiness, joy,
pain, and fairness.
What ideas might this person have?
Kinds of Nouns
There are two basic kinds of nouns:
1. Common
2. Proper
Common Nouns
A COMMON NOUN names a general
person, place, thing, or idea. It does
not refer to something specific.
shoe
cat
house
Proper Nouns
A PROPER NOUN names a specific
person, place, thing, or idea. It
refers to a NAME of a noun.
Nike
Felix
White House
Concrete & Abstract
Nouns
In addition to common and proper
nouns, there are also CONCRETE and
ABSTRACT nouns.
Hats—concrete noun
Love—abstract noun
CONCRETE NOUNS
CONCRETE NOUNS are nouns that you
can see, hear, touch, smell, or taste.
Abstract NOUNS
ABSTRACT NOUNS are nouns that you
cannot see, hear, touch, smell, or taste. They
are ideas, qualities, and feelings that cannot
be seen or touched.
RESPONSIBILITY
FAIRNESS
JUSTICE
Classify these Nouns:
bike
scissors
judge
snow
Philadelphia
planet
Jupiter
dollar
city
Pennsylvania
desk
justice
Christian
Islam
friendship
COMMON
CONCRETE
bike
planet
desk
scissors
judge
dollar
PROPER
snow
city
Jupiter
Christian
ABSTRACT
justice
friendship
Islam
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Practice
Identify the nouns in each sentence. Then classify it as cc
(common concrete), ca (common abstract), pc (proper concrete),
or pa (proper abstract).
1. The children play with their toys.
2. Skylar rides the bus to Spring Cove Middle School.
3. Ramadan is celebrated by Muslims around the world.
Practice Continued
4. Mrs. Maugle’s students have great respect for her.
5. Students have a barrel of fun in Miss McElhatten’s class.
Knowledge Testing
What is a noun?
• a person, place, thing, or idea
What is a concrete noun?
• a noun that can be seen, touched, heard, tasted, or
smelled
What is an abstract noun?
• a noun that cannot be seen, touched, heard, tasted, or
felt. They are ideas, qualities, and feelings that cannot be
seen or smelled
What is a proper noun?
• A noun that names a specific person, place, thing, or idea
What is a common noun?
• A noun that names a general person, place, thing, or idea.
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What is Verb?
A verb is a word which describes the action
in a sentence (the doing word).
Examples
I play football.
They skip quickly.
We eat spaghetti.
Bob is seven today.
Let’s Practice:
Andy pounds on his drum all day.
Who? Andy
“What does Andy do?”
pounds
The verb is pounds; it’s what Andy is doing.
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Identify the verbs
1. Melanie ate a baked potato.
2. Hector and Tom are reading.
3. They painted the house.
4. Did you carry his suitcase?
5. My plant grows quickly.
Regular Verb
•A verb that forms its past tense & present
participle by adding – d or – ed
•Or in some cases –t to the base form.
•Share  Shared
•Spend  Spent
•Walk  _______
•Count  ________
•Lose  _______
Irregular Verb
A verb that does not follow the usual rules
for verb forms
Verbs in English are irregular if they don't
have a conventional -ed ending (like asked or
ended)
Example:1. Throughout my career I swam for
form. Speed came as a result.
Past Verb
Those verbs that undergo substantial changes when
changing forms between tenses are irregular
verbs.
PRESENT TENSE
PAST TENSE
Go
Run
Sing
Bring
Think
Went
Ran
Sang
Brought
Thought
Exercise
• My Mother ______ late nights.
(work)
• Yesterday, I ______ the dog for a long.
Walk.
(Take)
• I _________ my own vegetables last year.
(grow)
Auxiliary Verbs
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•
Also called helping verbs.They are necessary for the
grammatical structure of a sentence, but they do not tell us
very much alone. We usually use helping verbs with main
verbs. They “help” the main verb (which has the real
meaning).
There are only 23 helping verbs in English
Helping Verbs
Have
Can
Could
Do
Am
May
Be
Has
Will
Would
Did
Were
Might
Being
Had
Shall
Should
Does
Is
Must
Been
Was
Some examples
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She is baking a cake today.
She was baking a cake yesterday.
She has been baking a cake today
She can bake a cake.
She would bake a cake if she could.
She did bake the cake yesterday.
She must bake a cake for her English class.
She will bake a cake tomorrow.
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Present Tense
Travel
Share
Climb
Run
Eat
Is
Begin
Give
Sing
Teach
Write
Know
See
Verb Tenses
Past Tense
Traveled
Shared
Climbed
Ran
Ate
Was
Began
Gave
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Past Participle
Had traveled
Had shared
Had climbed
Had run
Had eaten
Had been
Had Begun
Had given
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Identify the complete verb in the following sentences.
1. I remembered Mrs. Smith, who had shown me kindness.
1. I was unable to follow current events.
1. Fred forgot his appointment.
1. I began the story.
1. I had drunk three cartons of milk at lunch.
1. Peru has both modern cities and ancient ones.
1. The city’s population is actually growing.
Pronouns
Replace Nouns
Me
?
You!
Man
Girl
What are pronouns?
Words used to replace nouns
(antecedent)
• Place
It
• Person
He, She
• Thing(s)
It/They
• Idea(s)
It/They
Pronouns
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I, You, He, She, It, We, They
Me, You, Him, Her, It, Us, Them
My, Your, His, Hers, Its, Our, Their
Myself, Yourself, Himself, Herself, Itself,
Ourselves, Yourselves, Themselves
• (There are more than these.)
Pronoun Practice:
Replace the noun with the
pronoun.
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Jake reads a magazine.
The magazine was given to Jake.
Jake’s subscription is running out.
The dog wagged _____ tail.
Tom and Jerry went to ______ vacation
home in Mexico.
QUIZ TOMORROW!
• Nouns and pronouns
• Verbs and verb tenses