| A | B |
|---|
| noun | names a person, place, thing or idea |
| proper noun | names a specific person place, thing or idea |
| common noun | names any person place, thing or idea |
| concrete noun | names things you can recognize with your senses |
| abstract noun | names ideas, qualities, or feelings |
| collective noun | gives a single name to a group of individuals and can be singular or plural according to the context |
| compound noun | nouns that are made up of two or more words |
| possessive noun | names who or what owns or has something |
| singular noun | names one person, place, thing or idea |
| plural noun | names two or more people, places, things or ideas |
| contraction | a word made by combining two words into one by leaving out one or more letters and adding an apostrophe |
| possessive nouns and contractions | these two forms use an apostrophe |
| plural and possessive nouns | sound alike but spellings and meanings differ |
| appositive | a noun placed next to another noun to identify it or add information about it |
| appositive phrase | a group of words that come after a noun to describe it |
