Chapter Summary
In this chapter, you learned about the many functions of the noun in sentences. Nouns name people, places, and things; they also identify activities, ideas, and qualities. Nouns may be proper nouns or common nouns. Proper nouns refer to specific persons, places, or things; they are capitalized. All other nouns are common nouns.

You also learned to recognize the difference between singular, plural, and collective nouns. You learned the basic rules for forming the plurals of regular nouns as well as the plurals of foreign and irregular nouns.

Nouns are an easily recognized part of speech in a sentence. Your knowledge of their many functions will be valuable as you continue studying the remaining parts of speech.

Online Links

Web sites Describing the Internet

CenterSpan
http://www.centerspan.org/tutorial/net.htm

What is the Internet?
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/WhatIs.html

Internet Society
http://www.isoc.org/internet/

Internet Policy Institute
http://www.internetpolicy.org/briefing/12_99_story.html

Internet 101
http://www.internet101.org/start.html

Internet Dictionaries

Glossary of Internet Terms by Matisse Enzer
http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html

Webopedia
http://www.webopedia.com/

InstantWeb
http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc

Free Online Dictionary of Computing
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html

Internet Terms Dictionary
http://www.internettermsdictionary.com/cgi/search.pl

Bonus Exercise

Objective: Identify collective nouns and appositives.

1. Click on several of the links to Web sites describing the Internet.
2. Print one page from an article.
3. Working from the printout, choose one paragraph. Underline collective nouns once, and underline nouns used as appositives twice.
4. Write a sentence describing the Internet.
5. Underline the common nouns once and the proper nouns twice

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Crossword Puzzle
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Practice Test
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