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Title: Basic Noun Notes
Description: These notes will give a basic understanding of nouns to the reader and will help them be able to teach and answer question on these notes
Description: These notes will give a basic understanding of nouns to the reader and will help them be able to teach and answer question on these notes
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NOUNS NOTES
A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea
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A proper noun starts with a capital letter and names a particular
person, place, thing, or idea
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An abstract noun names an idea, a feeling, a quality, or a characteristic
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A compound noun
may be written as one word, as separate words, or as a hyphenate word
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COMPOUND NOUNS
ONE WORD
SEPARATE
WORDS
housekeeper, showcase, post office, dining
bookmark, outdoors,
room, maid of honor,
HYPHENATED
WORDS
daughter-in-law,
walkie-talkie,
teammate
high school, home run kilowatt-hour,
jack-o’-lantern, runner-up
A singular noun names one person, place, thing, or idea
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To form the plural of most nouns, simply add -s
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FORMING PLURAL NOUNS
Nouns ending with To form plural
Examples
s, z, ch, sh, x
Add -es
bus>buses buzz>buzzes
box>boxes
o preceded by a
vowel
Add -s
rodeo >rodeos studio>studios
radio>radios
o preceded by a
consonant
Usually add -es
Sometimes add -s
hero>heroes potato> potatoes
zero>zeros
photo>photos
y preceded by a
vowel
Add -s
day>days turkey>turkeys
toy>toys
y preceded by a
consonant
Usually change y to city>cities diary>diaries
i and add -es
penny>pennies
f or fe
Usually change f to
v and add -s or -es
wife>wives leaf>leaves
half>halves
Sometimes add -s
roof>roofs chief>chiefs
belief>beliefs
A collective noun names a group of people, animals, or things
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The subject is singular when the
members of the group act as a single unit
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A pronoun referring to the
collective noun can sometimes indicate whether a collective noun is
singular or plural
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[shares, its : singular]
--The team share their jokes with one another
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To form the possessive of singular and plural nouns not ending in s, add
an apostrophe and s (’s)
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Examples:
--the club of the ladies > the ladies’ club
--the car of the Joneses > the Joneses’ car
--the birth weight of the babies > the babies’ birth weight
An appositive is a noun or a pronoun placed adjacent to (usually after)
another noun or pronoun to identify it or describe it
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(The appositive Dolley identifies the noun preceding it, wife
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--Both the Tewa and the Hopi are part of the American Indian group
Pueblo
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--Did you know that she, Martha, won the race?
(The noun Martha identifies the pronoun she
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(The pronouns he and she identify the noun winners
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Example: Conifers, both redwoods and sequoias bear their seeds in
cones
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An appositive phrase is a group of words that includes an appositive
and any modifiers the appositive has
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(The adjectives the and largest and the adjective phrase in the world modify the
appositive deer
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(The words our and fourth modify the appositive president; our fourth president
is an appositive phrase that identifies the noun Madison
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If
the appositive is essential to the sentence’s meaning, however, commas
are not needed
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(Obviously, Madison had more than one friend, so the appositive, Thomas
Jefferson, is needed to identify this particular friend
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(Madison had only one father, so the father’s name is not needed to
identify him; therefore, commas are needed
Title: Basic Noun Notes
Description: These notes will give a basic understanding of nouns to the reader and will help them be able to teach and answer question on these notes
Description: These notes will give a basic understanding of nouns to the reader and will help them be able to teach and answer question on these notes