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Noun
A noun is word that names a person, place, thing, concept, idea, act, or characteristic.
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Common nouns
Common nouns refer to general ideas, objects, places, and concpets and are NOT cpaitalized.
ex, girl, man, house, bridge, class
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Proper nouns
Proper nouns refer to specific ideas, people, concpets, and objects and ARE capitalized.
ex. Brianna, Golden Gate Bridge, English
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Concrete nouns
Concreate nouns name things that are physical and able to be touched.
ex, desk, bottle, phone
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Abstract nouns
Abstract nouns name something that cannot be seen or touched but can be thought or felt.
ex., love, hate, Buddhism
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Collective nouns
Collective nouns name a group or collection of people, things, places, concepts, or characteristics.
\ex., family, team, flock, gaggle, litter, bunch, dozen
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Compound nouns
Compound nouns are made up of two or more words.
/ex. baseball, middle school, mother-in-law
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Singular nouns
Singular nouns refer to only thing, person, place, idea/concept, or characteristic.
/ex. dog, teacher, dress, test
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Plural nouns
Plural nouns refer to more than one thing, person, place, idea/concpet, or characteristic.
/ex. teachers, boxes, butterflies, echoes
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Noun types
Subject noun: when noun does something or is talked about in the sentence
Predicate noun: when the noun repeats or renames the subject
Possessive noun: when the noun shows ownership
Object noun: when noun is used as teh direct object, the indirect person, or teh object of the preposition
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Subject noun
When the noun does something or is being talked about within a sentence
ex. The dog ran quickly.
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Predicate noun
When the noun repeats or renames the subject
ex. A classroom is a great place to learn new things
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Possessive noun
When the noun shows ownership
ex. My mother's face beamed
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Object noun
Whenthe noun i sused as teh direct object, the indirect object, or the object of the prepostion
ex. You will love the sandwich on wheat bread
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Verb
A word that shows action(s) or a state of being.
Verbs can also be linking verbs that link the subject to the words that describe it. Such as is, has, been, and was.
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Helping verbs
Helping verbs are words that aid in the formation of tense.
/ex. shall, will, should, would, could, must, can, may, have, has, had, do, did, is, are, was, were, am, being, been.
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Present tense
Shows the action is happening now
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Past tense
Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses ed)
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Future tense
Shows that teh action will happen (uses will)
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Present perfect tense
When the action begins in the past but concludes in the present. (Add "has" or "have" to the past participle.)
/ex. It has taken a very long time to write this book.
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Past perfect tense
When teh avtion begins in the past and is completed in the past. (Add "had" to the past participle.)
/ex. I had hoped to be finished by November
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