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Hi everyone! Today we are going to talk about nouns.

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A noun is a special kind of word called a part of speech. Nouns are words that name

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a person, place, thing, or idea. Here are some examples of nouns.

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girl, and boy are words that name people. Doctor, fireman, and artist are nouns too.

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This artist is a penguin. Penguin is also a noun.

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Nouns can also name places. Playground and park are nouns that name places. Words like

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country and state name places too. There are many, many words to name the things that are

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around us. Anything you can touch, see, hold or feel is a noun, a type of noun called a

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concrete noun. Finally, there are nouns for ideas. These are a little trickier to understand

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as we can't see or touch them, but even though we can't touch them, we still need names for

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things like love, honesty, and happiness. These are called abstract nouns.

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Nouns can be singular, like if there is only one dog, or they can be plural, if there are

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several dogs.

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The last thing we are going to talk about today is the difference between common nouns

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and proper nouns. Common nouns are nouns that are general, or could belong to more than

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one item. Baby is a common noun. This is a baby and this is a baby, but these babies

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have proper names. If I say that this baby is named Ethan and this baby is named Emma,

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those are the proper nouns that name each specific baby. Proper nouns are special. We

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show that they are special by always using capital letters for proper nouns.

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Let's look at some more examples of common and proper nouns.

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I hope this helped you to understand what a noun is and learn the difference between

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a few of the types of nouns.