These should be taught to be seen as a chunk of information rather than a list or string of individual words. Noun groups usually consist of a pointer (the, a, an, this, that, these, those, my, your, his, her, its, our, mum‘s, Mr Smith’s) plus one or more adjectives or adverbs and are an important language resource for building up descriptions.

mass nouns name things that you cannot count, for example, gold, milk, sunshine, furniture, traffic, information.Ī noun group is a group of words relating to, or building on, a noun.

collective nouns name groups of things, for example, team, family, committee, flock, bunch.

abstract nouns name concepts or things that cannot be seen, for example, democracy, hate, joy, honesty, hypothesis.

proper nouns name specific people, places, things and acronyms and begin with a capital letter, for example, Cathy Freeman, Sydney Harbour, Olympic Games.

common nouns (the vast majority) are the names of classes of things and begin with a lower-case letter, for example, boy, girl, name, verb, biography, computer.

Some nouns refer to uncountable things, for example, air, research, happiness, snow, hair, traffic and so on.

Certain nouns refer to things that are able to be counted for example, ten toys. Nouns are words that name people, places, things, ideas and states of being.

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