Introduction
A noun is a part of speech that denotes a person, animal, place, thing, or idea. The English word noun has its roots in the Latin word nomen, which means “name.” Every language has words that are nouns. As you read the following explanations, think about some words that might fit into each category.
- Person – A term for a person, whether proper name, gender, title, or class, is a noun.
- Animal – A term for an animal, whether proper name, species, gender, or class is a noun.
- Place – A term for a place, whether proper name, physical location, or general locale is a noun.
- Thing – A term for a thing, whether it exists now, will exist, or existed in the past is a noun.
- Idea – A term for an idea, be it a real, workable idea or a fantasy that might never come to fruition is a noun.
Task
Here are the list of things to do:
1. Open this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN_Z0syQSB4
2. Watch the video.
3. Change the proper nouns into common nouns.
4. Create a descriptive paragraph on each noun category.
Process
1.After watching the video, list all the given nouns according to their category ( person, thing, place, animal ).
2. Next, change the proper noun into a common noun.
3. Lastly, create one descriptive paragraph of your favorite person, animal, place and thing with the correct spelling then identify every nouns in the paragraphs.
Evaluation
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| Noun Type Usage 5 pts Students properly changed common nouns into proper nouns. |
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| Correctly circled all of the nouns 3 pts Student identified each noun in all of the sentences |
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| Correct spelling 2 pts Every student spelled the noun(s) correctly. |
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Conclusion
Proper nouns and Common nouns
A further distinction that is traditionally drawn is between proper nouns (also known as proper names) and common nouns. In contrast to common nouns, proper nouns are conventionally capitalized in English.
| a. | Common nouns | man, collie, planet, country, state, city | ||
| b. | Proper nouns | John, Lassie, Jupiter, France, Illinois, Northampton |
Proper nouns refer to particular individual entities. The relation between proper nouns and individuals is not necessarily one-to-one, however. For instance, the proper noun John may refer to many different individuals of that name. Individuals with the same proper name needn't share any distinguishing properties (other than having the same name). In short, proper nouns function like pointers. In the same way that one and the same pointer can be used to point to different and unrelated items in a presentation, the same proper noun can be used to refer to different and unrelated individuals. In contrast, common nouns refer to sets of entities that are related by sharing certain properties. That is, common nouns have intrinsic semantic content and cannot be used in the relatively arbitrary way that proper nouns can be.