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9 Cards in this Set
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PROPER NOUNS
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Names a specific person, place or thing. (Calls for a capital letter)
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COMMON NOUNS
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names people, places, things, or ideas. They are not capitalized and are not specific.
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COUNTABLE NOUNS
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*things that can be counted.
*can be singular or plural *can use the indefinite article a/an. |
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NONCOUNT NOUNS
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* are substances, concepts etc. that cannot divide into separate elements. (ex: We can count "bottles of milk but we cannot count "milk" itself.*usually treat uncountable nouns as singular. We use a singular verb. Ex: This news is very important. •Your luggage looks heavy.
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COLLECTIVE NOUNS
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Refers to things or people as a unit. Examples: family, police, class, team, crew etc
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COMPOUND NOUNS
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Made up of two or more words. ex: toothache, flyswatter
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GERUND
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A verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. The term verbal indicates that a gerund, like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses action or a state of being
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NOUN PHRASE
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a noun is commonly combined with other words. The other words are usually articles, adjectives, and pronouns, and they can include adverbs.
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NOUN CLAUSE
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Does the work of a noun in a sentence or phrase. It is a group of words containing a subject and a finite verb of its own.
*Usually begin with words like how, why, what, where, when, who, that, which, whose, whether, etc. Also words like whoever, whenever, whatever and wherever. |
