Nouns are words used to identify people, animals, places, things and ideas.
Common nouns are the names of everyday things like the following
- brother
- sister
- book
- girl
- beach
Gender nouns are Masculine and Feminine like the following
- boy - girl
- brother - sister
- nephew - niece
- son - daughter
- uncle - aunt
- bull - cow
- dog - vixen
- gander - goose
- boar - sow
- rooster - hen
Singular noun denotes one noun and plural noun denotes more than one noun.
- boy - boys
- book - books
- box - boxes
- door - doors
- chair - chairs
Proper nouns are the names of specific people or places and begin with a capital letter
Collective nouns are the names of a group of people or things
Abstract nouns are the names of things you cannot see, smell, hear, touch or taste
- beauty
- pleasure
- sorrow
- relief
Abstract forms of nouns are very common and an important part of communication.
In many cases these types of nouns are derived from an addition of a suffix or alteration in the root word.
Child is a concrete noun, for example, but childhood is an intangible state, so it is abstract.
Nouns with the following suffixes are often abstract.
- -tion
- -ism
- -ity
- -ment
- -ness
- -age
- -ance/-ence
- -ship
- -ability
- -acy
Compound nouns are are made up of two or more words
- baseball
- blackboard
- airplane
- seafood
Nouns for first and second graders
Nouns for third and fourth graders