Wikijunior:Gramma's Grammar/Parts of Speech/Nouns

Nouns

The first part of speech is a noun.

A noun is a word that is a person, an animal, a place or a thing.

"Mailman", "library", "elephant" and "book" are all nouns. "Mailman" is a person, "elephant" is an animal, "library" is a place and "book" is a thing. "Eat", "happy" and "quickly" are not nouns. They are not people, animals, places or things. They are other parts of speech. "Eat" is a verb, "happy" is an adjective and "quickly" is an adverb. You may not know what verbs, adjectives and adverbs are yet, but that's OK.

Exercise
Tell if the words in bold are nouns.


 * 1) I went to the store today.
 * 2) I don't care.
 * 3) It seems the monkey fell out of the tree.
 * 4) Many people think that grammar is fun.
 * 5) If you eat eyeballs, you will get sick.
 * 6) I went to Washington on the weekend.

Underline all the nouns.


 * 1) Jason doesn't want to go the play.
 * 2) Dad watched TV so much yesterday that his eyes started to hurt.
 * 3) I feel like having hamburgers.
 * 4) My sister is a singer.