S1 Exercise 1: Nouns
PARTS OF SPEECH
NOUNS
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A noun is a naming word which names a person, creature, thing or a quality, e.g. table, girl, dog, danger |
TASK 1.Copy the table into your jotter. Write down three examples of your own for each type of noun
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CREATURE |
THING |
QUALITY |
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Boy |
Horse |
Book |
Envy |
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Nouns which name particular people or places are called proper nouns. These always start with a capital letter. e.g. Julie, Tokyo, Wednesday, February |
TASK 2. Copy the passage into your Jotter. Underline the nouns in the following passage placing N above ordinary nouns and P above proper nouns.
“It was more than two hours later that she saw she was getting close to the brick wall where he lived. Though her husband had been a great friend of Mr Ages and had visited him often. Mrs Frisby herself had been there only once before and that had been in summer. Still she remembered the place clearly. It was an odd sort of clearing in the woods. Long ago, when the old house had been lived in, before it had burned, there must have been a wide lawn around it”.