Name: English Grammar Course | Introduction to Nouns #1
Uploaded: 2020-06-08T03:18:19.000Z
Duration: 7 min 57 s
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In today's video, I'm going to tell you about nouns.

Because in English, nouns are very important.

They are the basic element of a sentence.

you need to know about the different kinds of nouns.

And I'm going to try and teach you as well as I can.

Now in English, concrete nouns are people places or things,

So you can basically use your five senses.

So abstract nouns, unlike concrete nouns,

So they are nouns. They are things that exist, but

These are all words that represent ideas, concepts... okay

Now, let's get into more detail about nouns.

Let's now see the difference between common nouns

and proper nouns which are very important in English.

So common nouns and proper nouns refer to people, places, things, ideas.

That becomes a proper noun with a capital 'F'.

But then you can name a specific city.  Let's take a

Remember proper nouns - always capitalized.

We can talk about things for example. An animal.

But if we take a specific dog, like Snoopy - capital 'S',

If we talk about things again, but for example, a car,

But if we name the brand, the specific brand of the car like Volvo,

that's a proper noun. And it takes a capital 'V'.

And finally, and we can say, a team - common noun.

But if we name a specific team, for example,

the best football team, Manchester United,

'team', is a special word because it's called

So collective nouns can be used as  singular nouns or plural nouns.

So now that we know a lot about nouns in English,

Let's practice finding nouns in a sentence.

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