Nouns

The word Noun comes from latin "Nomen", which means "name". A noun is the part of speech that names a person, place, thing or idea.

Nouns can be:

                      - Proper: Names specific people, things, places or ideas. Delia, George, Colon, Baru Mountain.

                      - Common: Names any person, place or things. Teacher, mechanic, student, pencil, bottle.

Clasification of nouns:

     * Concrete: Names something you can see, touch, taste, hear or smell.
     
     * Abstract: Names something we cannot perseive through our five senses. Hope, happyness, joy.

     * Collective: Names a group of people or things. Class, family, troop, crew.

     * Compound: Are made up of two or more words, and are divided in:
                        
                           - Separated words: coffe table, life preserved, bird dog.
                           - Hyphenated: Sargent-at-arms, brother-in-law, self-rule.
                           - Combined: Battlefield, Dreamland, schoolbus.

The Parts of Speech

The first thing we have to study in grammar are the parts of speech or morphology. Morphology is the identification, analysis and description of the parts of the sentence. We have study, for example, what is a noun, a pronoun, a verb, an interjection, etc.


By studying the parts of speech we can recognize and identify easily the kinds of words that we are reading in an essay, in a poem or in any book, and we can know what are the characteristics of each of them.


- Parts of speech


          . Nouns
          . Pronouns
          . Articles - Determiners
          . Prepositions
          . Adjetives
          . Adverbs
          . Interjections
          . Conjunctions