Nouns Flashcards

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What is a singular noun?

A

It is about one thing

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What is a plural noun?

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Is about many things.

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How do we build our vocabulary?

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Using many different types of nouns.

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What is a common noun?

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Names we give to all things that people have discover in our world the lists gets longer as we discover more and more new things.

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What is a proper noun?

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The particular name that we give to a person,place or thing. Proper nouns begin with capital letters.

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What is a pronoun?

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These nouns are used in place of a noun to avoid repetition.

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What is an abstract noun?

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These are names we give to ideas,feelings and emotions.

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What are the two types of pronouns?

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Possessive and compound

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What are collective nouns?

A

Names given to groups

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What is a gender noun?

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Feminine and masculine nouns.

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What is a diminutive noun?

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A name given to the baby or smaller version of an animal or thing.

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What is an occupation noun?

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Names given to a particular task.

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13
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What is onomatopoeia?

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Words that imitate sounds?

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What do we use nouns for?

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To name anything and everything.

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What is an apostrophe of possession?

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An apostrophe showing ownership or possession eg. Lisa’s ball.

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What is an apostrophe of contraction?

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The apostrophe is used in writing contractions — that is, shortened forms of words from which one or more letters have been omitted.