This document discusses different types of nouns including: - Common nouns that name general persons, places, things or ideas - Proper nouns that name specific persons, places, things or ideas - Compound nouns that are made up of two or more words used as a single noun - Collective nouns that name a group of persons, places or things Examples are provided to illustrate how to identify each type of noun in sentences.

1. Nouns

2. Nouns
 Nouns- a word or word group that is used to
name a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
Persons Alice Walker, Dr. Lacy, women, team
Places forest, town, Canada, Grand Rapids
Things jewelry, rain, pets, Skylab, Eiffel Tower
Ideas fairness, care, loyalty, idealism, beauty

3. Identifying Nouns
 Many American Indian leaders have been
known for their courage and wisdom.
 Chief Joesph of the Nez Perce was a wise
leader.
 He was an educated man; he wrote that his
people believed in justice and honor.

4. Compound Nouns
 A compound noun is made up of two or more
words used together as a single noun.
One Word basketball, filmmaker, drugstore, doghouse,
grasshopper, grandson, Passover,
Greenland, Iceland
Separate Words fire drill, chain reaction, The Call of the Wild,
Thomas Edison, House of Representatives,
North Americans
Hyphenated Word self-control, cross-references, fund-raiser,
eighteen-year-olds, mother-in-law, out-of-
doors, president-elect

5. Identifying Compound Nouns
 Louise Braille was born in 1809 in France.
 His father was a saddlemaker who often let
Louis play with pieces of leather.
 In 1812, when the three-year-old tried to
punch a whole in a piece of leather, the tool
slipped and injured his eye.

6. Common and Proper Nouns
 A common noun names any one of a group of
persons, places, things, or ideas.
 A proper noun names a particular person,
place, thing, or idea.
Poem “The Raven”
country Spain
athlete Michael Jordan
ship The Titanic
newspaper The New York Times
street Market Street
day Friday

7. Identifying Common and Proper
Nouns
 My whole family visited San Francisco during
our vacation last year.
 The city is famous for its hilly landscape.
 Oakland, which is across the bay, has a
number of teams that play professional
sports.

8. Collective Nouns
 A collective noun is a word that names a
group.
People Animals Things
audience brood batch
chorus flock bundle
committee herd cluster
crew litter collection
faculty pack fleet
family pride set

9. Identifying Collective Nouns
 I went with a group of students to see the
monument that commemorates Abraham
Lincoln.
 Each day huge crowds visit the Lincoln
Memorial, which is in Washington, DC.