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.

Felix Nike

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 PROPER

CONCRETE
bike scissors snow Jupiter Philadelphia
planet judge city Christian Pennsylvania
desk dollar
ABSTRACT
justice
Islam
friendship
 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 Went
Run Ran
Sing Sang
Bring Brought
Think 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

• 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 Has Had

Can Will Shall
Could Would Should
Do Did Does
Am Were Is Was
May Might Must
Be Being Been
 Some examples
• 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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 Verb Tenses
Present Tense Past Tense Past Participle
Travel Traveled Had traveled
Share Shared Had shared
Climb Climbed Had climbed
Run Ran Had run
Eat Ate Had eaten
Is Was Had been
Begin Began Had Begun
Give Gave Had given
Sing ? ?
Teach ? ?
Write ? ?
Know ? ?
See ? ?
 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
Me Replace Nouns
?
You!

Girl
Man
 What are pronouns?
Words used to replace nouns
(antecedent)
• Place It
• Person He, She
• Thing(s) It/They
• Idea(s) It/They
 Pronouns
• 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.
• 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