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Practical English Grammar

the noun

A noun, the first of the eight parts of speech, is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.

person: Darlene, boy, mayor, worker, scientist, assistant
place: Los Angeles, dock, home, park
thing: automobile, tool, balloon, penguin, tree
idea: freedom, independence, enmity, thoughtfulness

A singular noun is the name of only one person, place, thing, or idea. Examples of singu-
lar nouns include woman, auditorium, bicycle, and honesty.

A plural noun is the name of more than one person, place, thing, or idea. Examples of
plural nouns include teammates, cities, houses, and freedoms.

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Notes

Practical English Grammar - Notes

1. Italics Hyphens and Brackets

2. Quotation Marks Part Three

3. compound subjects part two

4. Second Capitalization List

5. Confusing usage words part six

6. Sound a like words Part Four

7. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

8. the noun

9. complete and simple subjects

10. the adverb

11. the object of the preposition

12. Confusing usage words part three

13. More Apostrophe Situations

14. the indirect object

15. irregular verbs part two

16. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

17. agreement involving prepositional phrases

18. the prepositional phrase

19. the noun clause

20. The possessive case

21. Confusing usage words part two

22. Quotation Marks Part Two

23. the adjective phrase

24. complex sentences

25. the verb

26. The possessive case

27. agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents

28. subject verb agreement situations

29. the preposition

30. the subordinating conjunction

31. complete and simple predicates

32. The nominative case

33. the adverb clause

34. Confusing usage words part seven

35. The Colon

36. Using Capital Letters

37. types of sentences by purpose

38. subject and verb agreement

39. the direct object

40. Confusing usage words part three

41. Active and passive voices

42. The verb be

43. More subject verb agreement situations

44. regular verb tenses

45. the correlative conjunction

46. compound subject and compound predicate

47. reflexive demonstrative and interrogative pronouns

48. the adjective

49. sentences fragments and run on sentences

50. The possessive case and pronouns