Page 12 - The Language Sandwich

Noun ( The bread )

We use nouns to name things

• a person e.g., Dagwood

• an animal e.g., a bear

• an object e.g., a grill

• a place e.g., Montreal

• actions e.g., creation

• abstract ideas e.g., love

• qualities e.g., greed

The capitalized nouns here are all proper

nouns, which means they refer to specific

people or places, and the lowercase ones are

common nouns.

Nouns are the bread of the sandwich. Without

the bread, we’d just have a sloppy mess. The

sentence kneads nouns. (See what I did there?)
And just as there are many different kinds of

bread, there are many different kinds of nouns.

Nouns are the best thing since sliced bread.

(Yeah, we went there.)