Nouns
Nouns are naming words. They the part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, or idea. There are different kinds of nouns, such as pronouns, proper nouns, common nouns and possessive nouns.
Example: Car, dog, park, happiness
Pronouns
Pronouns take the place of nouns in a sentence. For example, in the sentence “Mary had a little lamb and she brought it to school,” the word she replaced “Mary” and the word it replaced “lamb”.
Proper nouns
Proper nouns are alike nouns, just more specific. Proper nouns gives you the actual name of the person, place, thing, or idea. Using the example “Mary had a little lamb,” the word Mary is a proper noun whereas lamb is just a noun. The word Mary gave you the actual name of the person instead of just saying The Girl, which is a noun. The names of planets, countries, cities, your family members, your school are all proper nouns.
Common nouns
Common nouns are almost like the opposite of proper nouns. While proper nouns give you the specifics, common nouns are the general name you give a person, place, thing, or idea. For example, person, place, thing and idea are all common nouns because they generalise things under that category and are not specific to just one.
Common Noun Proper Noun
Girl Mary
Country Singapore
Animal Golden Retriever
Restaurant McDonald’s
Possessive Nouns
Possessive nouns are used to show possession over something.
For singular nouns that do not end with s, just adding an apostrophe s (’s) changes it to its possessive form.
Singular Possessive
Mary Mary’s
Car Car’s
Sister Sister’s
For singular nouns that end with s or s sound, add either an apostrophe (’) or apostrophe s (’s)
Singular Possessive
Bus Bus’ or Bus’s
Travis Travis’ or Travis’s
Fox Fox’ or Fox’s
For plural nouns that do not end with s, add apostrophe s (’s)
Plural Possessive
Men Men’s
People People’s
Children Children’s
For plural nouns that end with s, add an apostrophe (’)
Plural Possessive
Buses Buses’
Handphones Handphone’s
Blankets Blankets’
When you want to show individual ownership over something, you you add an apostrophe s (’s) to all the nouns
I have visited Jack’s and Jill’s home
When you want to show joint ownership over something, you add an apostrophe s (’s) to the second noun
I have visited Jack and Jill’s home
Nouns are naming words. They the part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, or idea. There are different kinds of nouns, such as pronouns, proper nouns, common nouns and possessive nouns.
Example: Car, dog, park, happiness
Pronouns
Pronouns take the place of nouns in a sentence. For example, in the sentence “Mary had a little lamb and she brought it to school,” the word she replaced “Mary” and the word it replaced “lamb”.
Proper nouns
Proper nouns are alike nouns, just more specific. Proper nouns gives you the actual name of the person, place, thing, or idea. Using the example “Mary had a little lamb,” the word Mary is a proper noun whereas lamb is just a noun. The word Mary gave you the actual name of the person instead of just saying The Girl, which is a noun. The names of planets, countries, cities, your family members, your school are all proper nouns.
Common nouns
Common nouns are almost like the opposite of proper nouns. While proper nouns give you the specifics, common nouns are the general name you give a person, place, thing, or idea. For example, person, place, thing and idea are all common nouns because they generalise things under that category and are not specific to just one.
Common Noun Proper Noun
Girl Mary
Country Singapore
Animal Golden Retriever
Restaurant McDonald’s
Possessive Nouns
Possessive nouns are used to show possession over something.
For singular nouns that do not end with s, just adding an apostrophe s (’s) changes it to its possessive form.
Singular Possessive
Mary Mary’s
Car Car’s
Sister Sister’s
For singular nouns that end with s or s sound, add either an apostrophe (’) or apostrophe s (’s)
Singular Possessive
Bus Bus’ or Bus’s
Travis Travis’ or Travis’s
Fox Fox’ or Fox’s
For plural nouns that do not end with s, add apostrophe s (’s)
Plural Possessive
Men Men’s
People People’s
Children Children’s
For plural nouns that end with s, add an apostrophe (’)
Plural Possessive
Buses Buses’
Handphones Handphone’s
Blankets Blankets’
When you want to show individual ownership over something, you you add an apostrophe s (’s) to all the nouns
I have visited Jack’s and Jill’s home
When you want to show joint ownership over something, you add an apostrophe s (’s) to the second noun
I have visited Jack and Jill’s home