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Collins Primary Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling

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2019
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Common nouns

These nouns are used to name every example of a certain type of thing. They start with a small letter.

There are three different types of common nouns.

Concrete nouns

A concrete noun is a physical object that you can actually touch:

Abstract nouns

An abstract noun is something that does not physically exist and so cannot be touched:

Collective nouns

A collective noun is a group or collection of things:

Proper nouns

These nouns are used for a particular person, place or thing. They start with a capital letter.

Singular and plural

The singular form of a noun is used to mean only one of a thing:

The plural form is used to mean more than one of a thing:

The possessive

The possessive (which is sometimes called the possessive case) is used to show that a person or thing owns another person or thing. You add ’s to the end of the noun that is the owner:

my mother’s sister

Nick’s football boots

the cat’s paw

the stadium’s roof

If the noun is a plural that already ends in s, you put an apostrophe at the end of the word:

the soldiers’ uniforms

those boys’ bicycles

African elephants’ ears

tractors’ wheels

You don’t use ’s to make a plural noun. It is only used for showing the possessive.

Adjectives

An adjective is a word that tells you something about a noun. Adjectives can describe nouns in a number of ways:

how they feel or what they are like:

a happy child

a strange boy

a joyful occasion

what they look like:

a large tree

a spotty dress

a gorgeous beach

what they sound, smell, taste or feel like:

a noisy party

a stinky cheese

a delicious cake

a hard seat

what colour they are:

a yellow bag

dark hair

green leaves

where they come from:

our German relatives

my American friend

a northern accent

what something is made from:
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