ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Collective Noun, Proper Noun, Interjection
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A noun is a word that describes a person, place, thing, or idea: common noun - a noun denoting a class of objects or a concept; it is a broad, general term. Ex. car, city, teacher: proper noun - name of a person, place, or thing. Grand canyon, california: abstract noun - a noun denoting an idea, quality, or state. Ex. honesty, friendship, trust: concrete noun - a noun that you can experience with 5 senses. Cat, phone, pencil: collective noun - a word that can take singular or plural verbs depending on whether the noun refers to a group as a single unit or to the multiple members that make up the group. An interjection is a word thrown into a sentence with emotional value and is carried by tone o o inter = in between ject = throw out.
