The zoo

Mere som dette

the sea

af tala marie

CATS Gary and Paul's joint venture

af Gary Hutchings

ANIMAL KINGDOM

af Sebastian Redolfo

VERTEBRATE ANIMALS

af Monica Caiza

The zoo

A noun is a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.

Sea Lion poo

Generic nouns are nouns that are part of a generic statement. Generic nouns can be singular or plural. The opposite of generic nouns is collective nouns.

The difference between definite/indefinite and generic nouns is that in the sentence there must be a blanket statement or question.

I see a man giving fish to the sea lions

Aquatic bird house cam

Proper nouns are the names of specific people or places. They should always begin with a capital letter.

I see around 7 birds including a penguin

I prefer seing the Madagascar one because I like seeing the lemurs hanging out

Possessive nouns are nouns which possess something, normally another noun.

Madagascar Cam

Common nouns are words for people, places or things that aren’t specific (as opposed to a proper noun which refers to only one person, place or thing).

Common nouns can be countable or uncountable, singular or plural.

I see three lemurs hanging out

Animals

A noun which refers to a group of things/people.

lemurs

Seals

Penguins

Bronx, New York

A noun which cannot be identified by using one of the five senses (taste, touch, sight, hearing, smell).

Bronx zoo

Irregular nouns are nouns which don’t follow a spelling pattern when pluralized.