Nouns - Glossary of Terms
Nouns
A noun is a naming word. It is the word used
for a person, place or thing.
Examples:
 Anne,
policeman, town, Exeter, crayon, The Eiffel Tower, thought, swimming, dream,
table, grass, oxygen, ounce, day.
All nouns can be classified as one of the following:
a common
noun - the word for a person, place or thing (e.g., cat, letter,
pound, bravery, building, sea)
a proper
noun - the name given to a person, place or thing (e.g., Felix,
The Empire State Building, Atlantic Ocean, Mr Jones, Doomsday Book)
a pronoun
- a word used to replace a noun (e.g., he, she, it, who, which, any)
There are other types of nouns; for example, abstract nouns,
collective nouns, compound nouns,
concrete nouns, mass nouns,
gender-specific
nouns and verbal nouns. Predominantly, these are
all types of common noun.
| The
gnome was stolen by sailors,
who took it around Europe
for a week. [show
me the nouns] |
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Glossary of Grammatical Terms
