| A | B |
| common noun | names any person, place, thing, or idea |
| proper noun | names a specific person, place, thing, or idea |
| concrete noun | a noun you can see or touch |
| abstract noun | ideas, quaklities, or feelings that can't be seen or touched |
| compound noun | are made up of two or more words |
| possessive noun | shows ownership |
| contraction | a word made by combining two words and leaving out letters |
| plural noun | shows more than one |
| collective noun | names a group of individuals |
| appositive | a noun that modifies another noun |
| appositive phrase | a phrase that modifies another noun |