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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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