Definition and Examples of Nouns

2. What is a Noun?

3. Person
Boy

4. Place
Waterfall

5. Animal
Dog

6. Thing
Bottle

7. How do you identify nouns in a
sentence?

8. 1. It can directly follow articles e.g ( a.
and, the) or quantity words (some, a
lot, ten).
Nouns usually use an article, but not
always.
E.g The dance was held on Saturday.
The is an article.. Dance followed
the article so dance is a noun.

9. 2. Nouns can be pluralized.
The dances were fast and complicated.
Dance - dances

10. 3. It can be used in the pattern:
article + adjective + noun
e.g. The graceful dancer.
The – article
Graceful – adjective
Dancer - noun

11. Examples of nouns.

12. Identify the Nouns in the picture
below.