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Noun: Classes of Nouns, Forms and Gender

Noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract ideas.

Classes of Nouns

Common Noun is a noun referring to a person, place, or thing in a general sense— usually you should write it with a capital letter only when it begins a sentence.
Proper Noun is always starts with capital [...]

Noun: Eight uses of a Noun

Eight uses of a Noun

1.      Subject of the Sentence – The subject is the person, place, thing, or idea that the sentence is about.

The book was heavy.

2.      Predicate Noun – A predicate noun comes after the verb to be or a linking verb that replaces or means the same thing as the subject [...]

Declamation Piece: Casey Jones

Come, all you rounder, for I want you to hear The story told of an engineer; Casey Jones was the rounder’s name, A heavy eight-wheeler of a mighty fame.

Oratorical Piece: I will Persist Until I Succeed

I was not delivered unto this World in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins.  I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.  The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

Poem: A Dream Within a Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream;