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| a noun that can be identified through the five senses- sight, smell, sound, taste and touch. Examples include: music, pie, tornado, flower, dog, milk, team. If you cannot see, smell, hear, taste, or touch something it is not this type of noun. |
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These are nouns that you cannot see, hear, taste, touch or smell. They refer to emotions, ideas, concepts, beliefs or a state of being.
Examples include: love, hate, acceptance, safety, evil, happiness, education, and patience. Abstract things. |
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These nouns demonstrate ownership over something else and they typically include an apostrophe.
Examples include: Tony’s car, the dog’s bone, my mother’s recipe. |
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| These nouns refer to one person, place, thing or idea in particular. They start with a capital letter and can be names of people, places, buildings, books, movies, months, days and organizations. Examples include: James Bond, February, Samsung, Monday, Big Ben, The Godfather. |
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This noun refers to a group of people, animals or things and is used in a singular form.
Examples include: a flock, a herd, a bunch, a set. |
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These nouns do not have a singular form but we use them to talk about multiples of a thing. We often use them with “some” or “a pair of”.
Examples include: trousers, scissors, outskirts. |
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These are nouns that can be counted and have singular and plural forms. In their singular form, they can be preceded by “a” / “an”.
Examples include: cat, women, country, drinks. |
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These nouns cannot be counted and don’t usually have a plural form.
Examples include: flour, earth, wood, rain. |
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| A word used to identify either a class of people, places, things, or to name a single one of these. (person, place, thing) |
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