nouns - A noun is the name of something. A common noun is the name of a general thing: ice cream, dog, cat and pen are all everyday nouns.
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- A concrete noun is something you can see, hear, smell feel or taste:
- It was a very tasty pizza dripping with cheese, ham and pineapple.
- It was a vanilla ice cream.
- She wore a woolly cardigan.
- An abstract noun is an idea, feeling or quality that you cannot touch. It is something you cannot see, smell, touch or taste. For example: loneliness, politeness, happiness, sadness, faith, courage, embarrassment, bitterness.
- You can look up words using an online dictionary such as www.askoxford.com
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common and abstract nouns activity - Activity two: make a list of all the common nouns you see.
- Activity three: make a list of all of the abstract nouns you
- see. Do you notice anything about them?
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- Activity one: look at this piece of writing.
- “She had no more clean dishes, clean knives or clean forks.
- Although she was not known for her tidiness, the house was unusually
- messy today. Rather than do the cleaning and cook a meal, Bev
- decided she would go out and get a takeaway. She had had too many
- late nights and her tiredness was making it harder to cope with the
- housework.”
common and abstract nouns - answers - “She had no more clean dishes, clean knives or clean forks.
- Although she was not known for her tidiness, the house was
- unusually messy today. Rather than do the cleaning and cook a meal,
- Bev decided she would go out and get a takeaway. She had had too
- many late nights and her tiredness was making it harder to cope
- with the housework.”
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- Common nouns: dishes, knives, forks, house, takeaway, housework, today, meal, nights
- Abstract nouns: tidiness, tiredness
- Adjectives: happy sad weak good ready tidy forgetful
- Activity: turn the adjectives in the box into nouns by adding a –ness ending e.g. sadness.
- Remember that when words end in ‘y’ you should change the ‘y’ into an ‘i’ e.g. readiness.
- Extra activity: put two of these words into sentences of your own.
- turning adjectives into nouns
- She was a happy girl but she could also be a weak person.
- (Happy and weak are used here to describe the girl’s character).
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