In my last post about parts of speech in English we looked at verbs.\u00a0 I mentioned how verbs are perhaps the most important part of speech in English.\u00a0 After all, it is only with verbs that you can have a complete sentence with just one word, for example: “Run!”\u00a0 This is a command and a complete sentence.<\/p>\n
Today we are going to look at nouns.\u00a0 After verbs, nouns are the second most important part of speech, in my opinion.\u00a0 In my last post, we left off looking at subjects and predicates of sentences,\u00a0 now we’ll return to that by focusing on the subject of sentences.\u00a0 It is important to note that the subject of a sentence always includes a noun.\u00a0 So, you might be asking yourself, what are nouns anyway?<\/p>\n
Nouns<\/strong> 1) Nouns are either singular or plural. Generally you add s<\/strong> to a noun to make it plural (but there are irregular nouns in English that break this rule.)<\/p>\n Regular nouns: dog\/dogs<\/strong>, bottle\/bottles<\/strong>, kite\/kites<\/strong> 2) Nouns are either common or proper. Proper nouns have two differences from common nouns, proper nouns: a) name a specific, often a one-of-a-kind item, and b) begin with a capital letter.<\/p>\n Common nouns: dog, table, computer 3) Nouns can show possession (who they belong to).\u00a0 To show possession you usually add ‘s<\/strong> to the noun.<\/p>\n Possessive nouns: Bob’s son, my sister’s car<\/p>\n This is the basic information you need to know about nouns to use them in sentences.\u00a0 Remember the subject of a sentence always includes a noun.\u00a0 Now with the two parts of speech we have covered so far (verbs and nouns) you can make many short complete sentence, for example: “Jenny cooks.” or “Bob sings.”\u00a0 To add more information and description to your sentences you will need more parts of speech.\u00a0 I will continue to review two more parts of speech tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my last post about parts of speech in English we looked at verbs.\u00a0 I mentioned how verbs are perhaps the most important part of speech in English.\u00a0 After all, it is only with verbs that you can have a complete sentence with just one word, for example: “Run!”\u00a0 This is a command and a…<\/p>\n
\nIt’s not easy to describe a noun. The simplest way to describe a noun is to say, nouns are “things” (and remember verbs are “actions”).\u00a0 For example, ‘book’ is a noun and ‘read’ is an action (verb) you do with that noun.\u00a0 Also, ‘person’ is a noun, person is who you are, ‘are’ is the state (verb) of being a person.\u00a0 Thus, the best definition of a noun is: A noun is a person, place, or thing.\u2028\u00a0 Following I have three additional helpful pieces of information about nouns.<\/p>\n
\nIrregular nouns: person\/people, city\/cities<\/p>\n
\nProper nouns: Beth, Minnesota, July<\/p>\n