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Nouns

What is a Noun?

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A noun is a word that refers to a person, a place, a thing, a substance, an event or a feeling/phenomenon.
Nouns can be concrete things, such as Norway, letter and Sarah or they can be abstract, such as fun and love.

Can you find the nouns in the task below?

Exercise

Can you find the nouns?

Can you find all of the nouns in the text below?

Bonus task

Take a closer look at any words you highlighted that were wrong and try to find out: what word class do they belong to? (verb, adverb, preposition etc.)

Written by: Anne Scott Hagen and Sonja Nygaard-Joki.
Last revised date 08/23/2019