What is a noun ? | parts of speech: nouns |noun types: compound | ELT & ESL

What Is A Noun?

What is a noun? Noun is described as words that refer to a personplacethingeventsubstancequalityquantity, etc.

Noun is a part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal or idea.

There are many different types of nouns in English, each designed to serve a different purpose in an English sentence.

Compound Nouns

Compound Nouns Definition

Compound nouns are words for people, animals, places, things, or ideas, made up of two or more words. Most compound nouns are made with nouns that have been modified by adjectives or other nouns.

List of Nouns – Compound Noun Examples

  • Airline
  • Airport
  • Aircraft
  • Armchair
  • Boyfriend
  • Battlefield
  • Briefcase
  • Butterfly

TASK 1:  Now you continue: identify the two words using different colours (green & fuchsia) as above

  • Countdown
  • Comeback
  • Background
  • Cupboard
  • Chopstick
  • Classmate
  • Daredevil
  • Daydream
  • Dragonfly
  • Everybody
  • Everything
  • Fireworks
  • Football
  • Footprint
  • Greenhouse
  • Hallway
  • Handcuff
  • Haircut
  • Homework
  • Horsefly
  • Houseboat
  • Inside
  • Moonlight
  • Myself
  • Notebook
  • Overdue
  • Pancake
  • Partnership
  • Photocopy
  • Raincoat
  • Rattlesnake
  • Ringworm
  • Skyscraper
  • Sandcastle
  • Snowboard
  • Sunshine
  • Teardrop
  • Teacup
  • Teapot
  • Thunderstorm
  • Timetable
  • Yourself

 

Compound Noun Examples

for more noun types, visit:

concrete & abstract nouns

https://brainperks4u.wordpress.com/2019/06/16/what-is-a-noun-parts-of-speech-nouns-noun-types-concrete-common-proper-abstract-nouns-elt-esl/

regular plural nouns & irregular plural nouns

https://brainperks4u.wordpress.com/2019/06/16/what-is-a-noun-parts-of-speech-nouns-noun-types-collective-elt-esl-2/

collective nouns

https://brainperks4u.wordpress.com/2019/06/16/what-is-a-noun-parts-of-speech-nouns-noun-types-collective-elt-esl/

possessive nouns

https://brainperks4u.wordpress.com/2019/06/16/what-is-a-noun-parts-of-speech-nouns-noun-types-possessive-elt-esl/

compound nouns

https://brainperks4u.wordpress.com/2019/06/16/what-is-a-noun-parts-of-speech-nouns-noun-types-compound-elt-esl/

countable & uncoutable nouns

https://brainperks4u.wordpress.com/2019/06/16/what-is-a-noun-parts-of-speech-nouns-noun-types-countable-uncountable-elt-esl/