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Target 1: Nouns

Language is made up of different types of words and these are the building
bricks of a sentence.
The first sentence building brick we will look at is the NOUN.

NOUNS: Common and Proper nouns

Nouns are NAMES. It can be a person, an animal, an object, a town - everyone and
everything has a name. Nouns can also be names of things we can’t see, such as
emotions (e.g. strength, anger or fear). So you can see that nouns are a very large
group of words.

There are two types of nouns: proper nouns and common nouns.

Proper Nouns

These are the special names given to specific people or things. For example:

Mr Jones River Severn

NOTE:
Proper nouns Paris Australia

begin with a

CAPITAL letter. Pacific Ocean High Street

September Friday

Common Nouns

These are general names given to people, places or things. Common nouns do not
begin with a capital letter. Below are some examples of common nouns.

flower chairs carrot fear country volcano

river shoe children snow people building

‘dog’ is a ‘Ben’ is a
COMMON NOUN PROPER NOUN

My dog was My dog, Ben,
sitting by the
was sitting by
bike. the bike.

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