Reflect and Respond

Notice the nouns around you. Look for nouns wherever you go. Nouns are in newspapers, websites, letters, addresses, billboards, television shows, food containers, shopping lists, and receipts. Write down at least 10 nouns each day for a week. Look your words up in a dictionary to make sure that you've identified them correctly as nouns.

Monday

sugar

happiness

London

rain

family

religion

dog

cinema

school

tea

Tuesday

bookstore

apartment

New York

cat

children

daughter

danger

football

eye

rice

Wednesday

England

dream

bear

boy

advertisement

Christmas

army

childhood

iron

student

Thursday

hair

anger

Shakespeare

chair

bird

truth

government

dinner

money

TV

Friday

darkness

soup

science

blood

evening

Spain

grass

salt

friendship

jury

Saturday

weekend

gold

violence

Europe

food

staff

bees

news

nature

wedding

Sunday

death

crowd

July

History

water

hamburger

health

Franklin Roosevelt

stress

car

Explanation:

In English, there are different types of nouns, as follows:

Common nouns - refer to things or people in general.

e. g. son, daughter, city, breakfast, etc.

Proper nouns - a name that determines a particular person or place; this type of nouns begins with capital letters.

e. g. London, Europe, Monday, July, Shakespeare, etc.

Concrete nouns - objects or people that exist physically and can be touched, heard, smelled, or tasted.

e. g. dog, cat, coffee, house, snow ...

Abstract nouns - refer to ideas, concepts or qualities that cannot be seen and have no physical reality.

e. g. death, happiness, friendship, time, etc.

Collective nouns - refer to groups of things or people

e. g. family, government, audience, staff, etc.

Countable nouns - refer to things or persons that can be counted. These nouns have both singular and plural forms.

e. g. dollar, year, person, etc.

Uncountable nouns - refer to things that cannot be counted. These nouns have only the singular form.

e. g. water, sugar, rice, money, etc.