ED1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Peter London
Parts of Speech - Nouns
What is a noun?
- ‘Naming words’
- People, places, objects, states, concepts or collections of things
India
chair
Peter
psychology
Concrete Nouns
1. We can see, feel, smell, taste, touch, hear
song
flower
Venice
Stephen Spielberg
Types of Concrete nouns
Common Nouns:
Refer to a kind of person, thing or place
Common nouns don’t need capital letters
book
university
town
years, days, weeks, months
Proper Nouns
Refer to a specific person, thing or place
Need capital letters
Peter
London
Cambridge University
Collective Nouns
Refer to a group of things/objects
Collective nouns are singular
team
flock
crowd
Abstract Nouns
- Refers to qualities, states or concepts that cannot be physically experienced by the senses
- We cannot see, feel, smell, taste, touch, hear
- education
- crime
- beauty
- health
- freedom
- caution
- living
- feminism
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