Nouns Singular and Plural Nouns Nouns can be

Nouns

Singular and Plural Nouns • Nouns can be singular or plural, depending upon whether they name one person, place, thing, or idea or more than one. • Singular: boy, body, watch, wife, ox • Plural: boys, bodies, watches, wives, oxen

Possessive Nouns • The possessive form of a noun can show possession, ownership, or the general relationship between two nouns. Add an apostrophe and –s to form the possessive of a singular noun, even one that already ends in –s. Use an apostrophe alone to form the possessive of a plural noun that ends in –s.

Possessive Nouns • • Singular Possessive the car’s hood the baby’s bottle the dish’s pattern the valley’s town the calf’s mother the business’s payroll

Possessive Nouns • • Plural Possessive the cars’ hoods the babies’ bottles the dishes’ patterns the valleys’ towns the calves’ mothers the businesses’ payrolls

Concrete and Abstract Nouns • A concrete noun names an object that occupies space or that can be recognized by any of the senses. – petal smoke cough orange An abstract noun names an idea, a quality, or a characteristic. motion humor quantity tact

Proper Nouns • A proper noun is the name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea. • • Person: Sean Connery Uncle Peter Place: Mexico Lake George Thing: Statue of Liberty Thanksgiving Idea: Baroque Age Judaism

Common Nouns • A common noun is the general-not the particular-name of a person, place, thing, or idea. • • Person: actor uncle Place: country lake Thing: statue holiday Idea: era religion

Collective Nouns • A collective noun names a group. • • family (the) public team (the) press (the) senate (a) gaggle (of geese) (an) audience (the) board (of directors)

Collective Nouns • You consider a collective noun singular when you talk about a group as a whole. • Singular: The audience shouts its approval.

Collective Nouns • You consider a collective noun plural when you talk about the individual members of the group. • Plural: The audience have arrived in small groups.