Welcome to tweeters, language coroners world of grammar. In this lesson, we are going to focus on the use of nouns. Let's first begin by defining what nouns are. nouns can best be defined as a person, a place or a thing. For example, a dog school or Miami Dog is considered to be a living thing. School is a place and Miami is also a Sidwell.

It's a city so it's considered to be a place. These are all examples of nouns Now that we are clear on what a noun is, we need to talk about the different types of nouns. Do you know how many types of nouns they are? Well, based on the screen, you can see that there are multiple question marks. This is the amount of nouns that we have. So when we say types of nouns, we're talking about a person, a place or a thing, but there are categories.

So, what are the categories? Well, we have common nouns and proper nouns, abstract nouns and concrete nouns, singular nouns, pronouns, and possessive nouns. Okay, so let's take the time to dive in deep and discuss the different types of nouns Common versus proper. First off, it's very important to know the difference between common and proper nouns. Because when it comes to your punctuation and capitalization, you need to know what words you capitalize what words you don't capitalize, and so on and so forth. So let's take a look at the difference between common and proper.

So first off proper nouns are nouns that are very specific. And you must always capitalize these nouns. For example, Miss Toya. Miss Toya is a name. It's a specific noun, so therefore I must capitalize this name. common nouns on the other hand are normally General nouns.

So they are nonspecific. And as a result, you do not capitalize any common noun. Teacher. So, Miss Toya is a proper noun. And she is a teacher, which is a common noun. Teacher is not a specific name.

It's general, there are many teachers in the world. So the takeaway from this is about capitalization. If you have a common noun, you do not capitalize the word. But if you have a proper noun, which is talking about a specific thing, it's a specific name, you must capitalize. Okay, so now let's look at the difference between singular plural and then possessive. First off singular is anything dealing with one.

So if you have a singular noun you are referring to one and only one. For example, desk, class, and story. plural nouns refer to two or more things. So you need to use the plural form of the noun. Generally speaking plural forms require you add an s and E s, or IE. As for possessive, the purpose of possessive nouns is to express ownership.

Miss toys class. Okay, so let's dive in a little bit deeper about possessives because there are a couple of rules that we need to know. But before we do that, let's talk about the Difference between concrete and abstract nouns. So a concrete noun are any nouns which you can see you can touch, you can feel, they have a physical form, like a desk, and a student in a class. All of these are physical. I can touch a desk, I can see it.

I can smell it, and student class and so on and so forth. However, abstract nouns are things that are considered to be non physical. They're usually ideas or concepts, such as peace, hate, happiness, love. These are all things in which that we conceptualize, they are ideas, but we cannot touch them. We cannot see them. We definitely don't hear them.

They are not physical So when you're dealing with a concrete and an abstract noun, no that concrete is for physical and abstract is for non physical. This information is going to come in handy when we talk about count and non count nouns. So keep this information in mind for the next lesson. Okay, so let's do a quick review. First off, a noun is a person a place or thing. And it can either be common or proper, common, meaning general and proper meaning specific.

It can also be concrete or abstract, physical, for concrete, non physical for abstract. And then of course, the noun could also have a plural form, or it could be singular Meaning one, or possessive to show ownership. Okay, so now let's dive in deeper about possessive nouns because this is very important. So, as we mentioned before, possessive nouns are used to show ownership of things. And when you use a possessive noun, it is very, very, very important that you use the s. Okay, so here are a couple rules to keep in mind. Okay, so follow along with me here.

All right. Okay, so first off, if you have a singular noun, and you want to show possession, you simply add an s with an apostrophe. Now, what is an apostrophe and apostrophe is what I like to call a upside down or upwards comma, right? That is an apostrophe. Okay? So if I say I'm the construction of it or the contracted form for I am is I'm, and to get that you use I, apostrophe.

And then and so with the possessive noun form, you need your apostrophe with an S, if it's singular, for example, students, right? So if I was talking about something that belonged to a student, so I could say the student's paper. Okay, so what's happening here? I am showing you that let's see if I can change that. Color there we go okay, I am showing you that the paper belongs to the student. So, when you use a possessive noun, you are basically showing that your subject or what have you is has ownership over a thing, okay.

So usually living breathing objects so, people, animals, right? They have possession over non living things like books and paper and food and cups and things like that. Okay. So when you think of possessive noun, keep in mind that the possession is between a living breathing noun over a non living thing, okay, so the paper belongs to the student. Okay. It's kind of sad.

You would say, I'm paper. of student right? However, in English, we don't use that for, okay, we simply use this possessive form right here. Okay, so let's go ahead and move on here. Now, plural. Now there are two rules that you should keep in mind for the plural possessive form.

Okay, so the first rule is that if you have a plural form that ends in an S, you simply add an apostrophe after the s. This is not necessary to use another s, because you're plural form already in us. So Just show the possessive form with an apostrophe. Okay, so here we go. Let's look at an example. So if I said the students paper, what does this say? This lets me know that more than one student has a paper, the paper belongs to each and every student.

Okay? So if it's singular, it's one person and their thing that they possess, but if you have an SN an apostrophe, that means that it's multiple students and their object or whatever it is, that belongs to them. Okay? All right, let's keep going here. Now, the last rule is About plural forms that are irregular right? So plural forms that do not end in s. Remember, we have both irregular well regular first right and irregular forms.

Okay? So, your regular forms are the nouns that you simply add an s or s right or IE s, but our regular forms are such words that completely changed form like totally for example, child is singular, right? Do we remember that? Yes, but children is the plural form. Okay. So when you have a completely different plural form and it does not end As you must add an apostrophe s, just like the singular form, but it doesn't mean that this noun is singular, it simply means that you have an irregular noun, which changed its form to show plurality and you add an apostrophe s. And those are the rules for your possessive nouns.

Okay? So remember, the purpose of possessive nouns are to show ownership of objects of things. If it's singular, you use Apostrophe S. If it's plural, and it ends in an S, you simply add an apostrophe and if it is plural, and it does not end an S, use, Apostrophe S. Okay, so, now it's time for us to do a little practice. Okay? Now this practice activity, you are going to need to decide what form or what type of noun I have presented to you. Okay?

Now obviously, I will give you the correct answer, don't worry. But it's important for us to be able to identify our nouns because this is going to help you in your speaking as well as in your writing. All right, so let's begin the practice. Number one, cats. Now tell me is this common or proper? plural, singular or possessive?

Well, I hope you decided that for this one. It is enough to give you the answer here. It is common. Okay? It is not a proper noun. Cats is general.

There are no cats that his name is cat. Right. It's general It happens to be a plural. Okay. All right, so common and plural. Okay, let's go on to the next one.

Thomas Smith. Now, is this one common or proper? plural, singular or possessive? Well, I hope you said proper because you have capital letters here, right? So this is someone's name. This is a male name.

And it's singular, because it's only one. Okay. All right, let's move on to the next one. Love. Now for this one, is it common, or is it proper? Common or proper?

Well, I hope you said that this is a common noun. Yes, it is not proper. Okay. It's not specific. It is absolutely general. All right.

This concludes our lessons on nouns, the different types of nouns. I hope that this information helped you. And stay tuned for our next lesson. And feel free to use the resources that have been provided to you to practice the different noun types. See you soon.