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Hello welcome to this tutorial.

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Today we are going to talk about common nouns.

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Let's get started.

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K. so a known is a word used to identify people places or things.

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These nouns are called common nouns or a noun is a word used to name a particular one of these and that

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is called a proper noun.

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For example in the sentence you can buy coffee at Starbucks coffee is a common noun it is a word used

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to identify a thing Starbucks on the other hand is a proper noun because it is used to identify a particular

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place

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now a common noun is a noun showing a class of object or a concept as opposed to a particular individual.

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For example there was a sofa two chairs and a wardrobe in the room.

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Note that the common nouns are general names they are not capitalized unless they begin a sentence or

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are part of a title.

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For example capitals of the countries are usually very large.

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The word capital is at the beginning of a sentence so it's capitalized and in the sentence London is

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the capital of Great Britain the word capital is not capitalized now wealthy at s to a noun it becomes

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more than one or plural for example flower Lowry's dog.

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Dogs and nouns ending in s s s s s h c s x c or o we add e as to its so that we can make a plural from

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more than one for example.

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Bus buses watch watches box boxes potato potatoes and nouns ending in Y.

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Change into I just e s what we want to make a plural for example baby babies and nouns ending in f or

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f e change into F V E plus s to make a plural.

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For example life lives Wolf all but believed.

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Turns into beliefs sharp turns into chefs.

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Now here are some nouns that are irregular for example singular form of the word man said the plural

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men woman when men person people child children choose to

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feats nouns mice.