A regular plural noun uses the suffixes -s and -es to show more than one person, place, or thing. Examples cat < cats dog < dogs fox < foxes girl < girls Irregular Plural Nouns Irregular plural nouns are plural nouns that are not formed by using the suffixes -s or -es. Instead, irregular plural nouns undergo separate changes. Nouns ending in -f or -fe To…

Possessive nouns show ownership. A person, place, or thing can have something that belongs to them. Possessive nouns usually form by adding an s to the end of a noun. Examples The dogs toy showed damage. The boys sandwich fell on the ground. If the noun is plural and ends in s you simply add an apostrophe. If the plural form does…

Two or more words make up a compound noun. Some compound nouns can appear as a single word (closed), a hyphenated phrase, or two separate words (open). There are several different ways to create a compound noun. For example: noun + noun (football) adjective + noun (whiteboard) noun + adjective (handful) verb + noun (dining table)…

A group of people, animals, and things are collective nouns. Some collective nouns are versatile while others are not. For example, swarm typically describes bees and not lions. However, you could deliberately use the wrong collective noun to promote a specific image. Generally, collective nouns are singular. They are only used in the plural form if they are emphasizing…

Items we count using numbers are countable nouns. These nouns are singular or plural. In the singular, countable nouns use a determiner like a or an. For example: I have a dog that smiles. In the singular form, you can also use the number one. I have one dog that smiles. The plural form uses a variety of different numbers along with the suffix…

Abstract nouns are the opposite of concrete nouns. They are nouns that you cannot touch, taste, hear, see, or smell. Abstract nouns refer to concepts, ideas, qualities, and feelings that are not tangible. Sometimes it can be difficult to pick an abstract noun out of a sentence. This happens when a word like love appears in a…

Nouns are either common or proper. Common nouns do not refer to a particular person, place, or thing. Common nouns are not capitalized. In contrast. proper nouns represent specific places, people, and things. You capitalize proper nouns no matter where they appear in a sentence. An example of a proper noun would be Luke. The name refers…

Concrete Nouns Concrete nouns are people, places, or things that we observe using the five senses. Nouns that we hear, see, taste, touch, or smell belong to this category of nouns. We can subcategorize concrete nouns into 2 types of nouns: proper and common. When looking at a sentence it is easy to pick out the concrete noun example.…

Using a Noun as a Subject or an Object Each sentence that we speak or write must feature a subject and this will always be a noun. When we talk about the subject, we are referring to the place, person or thing which is completing the action (verb) within the sentence. Look at the following examples:…

As we mentioned earlier, the noun can be used to name a variety of different things. Lets take a look a this. Examples of Nouns to Name a Person The prime minister My sister A boy Barack Obama Examples of Nouns to Name a Place The beach Mount Everest My kitchen Australia Examples of Nouns…