Nouns

What is a noun?

A noun is a naming word, 

It is the name of a person

Examples: Jessica, Vicky, Mark, Father, Mother, Sister, etc.

It is the name of a place

 

Examples: Disneyland, Great Wall of China, Resort World, etc.

It is the name of a thing 

Examples: bag, cell phone, pen, book, toys etc.

OR 

FEELING

Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn.

All names are nouns. In other words a noun is a word used to name a person, a place or thing.

Try to look around you.  

You can name that you see, right?

The highlighted words in the following sentences are all nouns:

•  Yesterday our neighbors bought a goat.
• The bus inspector looked at all the passengers' passes.  
• Portia White was an opera singer. 

 

For clarification, Nouns are words that name people, places, things, or ideas - they are not actually people, places, things, or ideas.

What is a noun? Choose the noun from the following two pictures.

 

CHICKEN 

The one on the RIGHT is the correct answer. Why? Well, what is a noun? It is first and foremost a word. Notice that while the photo of the chicken is the cuter of the two, it is not naming a chicken - it is a chicken.

A word is a noun - not the actual thing that the word represents.

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