Nouns

1. Nouns Write Source 701-702

2. Nouns • Noun: a word that names something: a person, a place, a thing, or an idea. • Classes of Nouns: proper, common, concrete, abstract, and collective.

3. Classes of Nouns • 701.1 Proper Noun • Names a particular person, place, thing, or idea. They are always capitalized. • Jackie Robinson, Christianity, World Series, Brooklyn • 701.2 Common Noun • Does not name a particular person, place, thing, or idea. They are not capitalized. • person, woman, president, park, baseball • 701.3 Concrete Noun • Names a thing that is tangible (can be seen, touched, hear, smelled, or tasted) . Can be proper or common. • Becky, child, Grand Canyon, aroma, music

4. Classes of Nouns • 701.4 Abstract Noun • Names an idea, a condition, or a feeling—in other words, something that cannot be experienced by the five senses. • greed, poverty, progress, freedom • 701.5 Collective Noun • Names a group or a unit. • United States, team, crowd, community

5. Forms of Nouns • 702.1 Number of a Noun • Indicates whether the noun is singular or plural. • Singular: refers to one person, place, thing, or idea. • Actor, stadium, Canadian, truth, person • Plural: refers to more than one person, place, thing, or idea. • Actors, stadiums, Canadians, truths, people • 702.2 Gender of a Noun • Indicates whether a noun is masculine, feminine, neuter, or indefinite. • Masculine: uncle, brother, men, bull, rooster, stallion • Feminine: aunt, sister, women, cow, hen • Neuter (without gender): tree, cobweb, closet • Indefinite (masculine or feminine): president, plumber, doctor, parent

6. Forms of Nouns • 702.3 Case of a Noun • Tells how nouns are related to other words used with them. There are three cases: nominative, possessive, and objective.

7. Forms of Nouns • Nominative case: noun can be the subject of a clause. • Danny’s feet were tapping nervously under the table; that tall man in the corner owed an explanation to the boy he had left behind. • Possessive case: noun shows possession or ownership. • Like the spider’s claw, a pat of him touches a world he will never enter. (Loren Eiseley, “The Hidden Treasure”) • Can also be a predicate noun (predicate nominative) which follows a “be verb” and renames the subject. • Objective case: noun can be a direct object, an indirect object, or an object of the preposition. • Marna always gives Mylo science fiction books for his birthday. • Mylo is the indirect object, books is the direct object of the verb “gives”, and birthday is the object of the preposition “for”.

8. Functions of Nouns

9. Functions of nouns • 738.1 Subjects and Predicates • Subject: part of the sentence about which something is said. • Predicate: contains the verb & the part of the sentence which says something about the subject. • 716.2 Objects • Direct Object: receives the action of a transitive verb (verb that needs an object) directly from the subject. • Indirect Object: names the person to whom or for whom something is done. • 732.1 Prepositions • Prepositions: show the relationship between its object (a noun or a pronoun that follows the preposition) and another word in the sentence. • Object of the Preposition: The first noun or pronoun to follow the preposition