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Hi everyone! Today we're going to talk about nouns.
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A noun is a special kind of word, called a 'part of speech.' Nouns are words that name
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a person, place, thing, or idea.
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Here are some examples of nouns. 'Girl' and 'boy' are words that name people. 'Doctor,'
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'fireman,' and 'artist' are nouns, too. This artist is a penguin. 'Penguin' is also a noun!
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Nouns can also name places. 'Playground' and 'park' are nouns that name places. Words like
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'country' and 'state' name places, too.
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There are many, many words to name the things that are around us. Anything you can touch,
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see, hold, or feel is a noun - a type of noun called a 'concrete noun.'
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Finally, there are nouns for ideas. These are a little trickier to understand, as we
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can't see or touch them, but even though we can't touch them we still need names for things
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like love, honesty, and happiness. These are called 'abstract nouns.'
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Nouns can be singular, like if there is only one dog, or they can be plural, if there are
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several dogs.
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The last thing we are going to talk about today is the difference between common nouns
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and proper nouns. Common nouns are nouns that are general, or could belong to more than
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one item. Baby is a common noun. This is a baby, and this is a baby. But these babies
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have proper names. If I say that this baby is named Ethan and this baby is named Emma,
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those are the proper nouns that name each specific baby. Proper nouns are special. We
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show that they are special by always using capital letters for proper nouns.
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Let's look at some more examples of common and proper nouns!
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I hope this helped you to understand what a noun is, and learn the difference between
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a few of the types of nouns.