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00:00Hi everyone! Today we are going to talk about nouns.
00:05A noun is a special kind of word called a part of speech. Nouns are words that name
00:12a person, place, thing, or idea. Here are some examples of nouns.
00:20Girl and boy are words that name people. Doctor, fireman, and artist are nouns too.
00:30This artist is a penguin. Penguin is also a noun.
00:36Nouns can also name places. Playground and park are nouns that name places.
00:43Words like country and state name places too.
00:48There are many, many words to name the things that are around us.
00:52Anything you can touch, see, hold, or feel is a noun, a type of noun called a concrete
00:59noun.
01:01Finally, there are nouns for ideas. These are a little trickier to understand as we
01:07can't see or touch them, but even though we can't touch them, we still need names
01:12for things like love, honesty, and happiness. These are called abstract nouns.
01:22Nouns can be singular, like if there is only one dog, or they can be plural, if there are
01:28several dogs.
01:31The last thing we are going to talk about today is the difference between common nouns
01:35and proper nouns. Common nouns are nouns that are general, or could belong to more than
01:41one item.
01:43Baby is a common noun. This is a baby, and this is a baby, but these babies have proper
01:49names. If I say that this baby is named Ethan, and this baby is named Emma, those are the
01:57proper nouns that name each specific baby.
02:01Proper nouns are special. We show that they are special by always using capital letters
02:06for proper nouns.
02:10Let's look at some more examples of common and proper nouns.
02:40I hope this helped you to understand what a noun is, and learn the difference between
02:55a few of the types of nouns.