Types of nouns

Common Noun

• Person, place, thing or animal

• Made up of two words

• park, cat

• White House, Linda

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

Countable Noun

• Things that can't be counted

• flour, honey

• eggs, carrots

• Things that can be counted, has a singular and plural form, Can be used with a number or a/an before it

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

Compound Noun

• cake, flour

• cupboard, jack-in-the box

• Two or more words that create a noun

• Group of people, animals or things

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4D

Proper Noun

• Specific person, place or thing. Usually capitalized

• White House, Grant Park

• cake, flour

• Things that can't be counted

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

Concrete Noun

• beauty, happy, sad

• cake, moon, tree

• Person, animal or thing that exist and can be physically seen, touched, smelled, heard or tasted

• Specific person, place or thing. Usually capitalized.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1C

Abstract Noun

• beauty, happy, love, wisdom

• cake, flour, mother, father

• Emotions, feelings, ideas, qualities or characteristics, which can be physically seen, touched, smelled, heard or tasted

• Emotions, feelings, ideas, qualities or characteristics, which cannot be physically seen, touched, smelled, heard or tasted

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1C

Collective Noun

• Group of people, animals or things

• Grant Park, White House

• fleet of ships, bunch of grapes

• Specific person, place or thing

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1A

Uncountable Noun

• eggs, carrots

• Things that can't be counted

• honey, flour

• Made up of two words to form a noun

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

Choose 2

Proper Nouns

• Luke Skywalker

• Washington, DC

• basketball

• cupcake

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1B

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.K.1B

Choose 2

Abstract Nouns

• love

• baseball

• smart

• Tom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1C