A Poem about Nouns

For English teachers and their Students

I would like to tell you about these things called nouns,

Like 'Hope' and 'books' and 'flocks' and 'clowns',

A common noun refers to anything,

It's tangible , we can see and touch,

While an abstract noun is for an invisible something

- not a physical thing as such.

"Love" and "hope", we cannot put these in a box...

As we can a book, a boy, a toy, a fox.

A proper noun this is a name for a place or person, it's something real,

Like London, Tuesday, John or Mrs MacNeal,

Do take care to not forget a-

-Proper noun begins with a capital letter.

The collective noun refers to a group

Like a company of actors or performers in a troupe-

And their art may inspire our hearts

With the love and hope and feeling

That the abstract noun imparts,

Pronouns replace nouns they simplify,

Like "them" and "we" and "us" and "you" and "I",

Their relatives help us to relate -

"That" boy, "What"time, "which" man, "who"  went, "what" fate,

So nouns all add to our understandings

In telling us about the world of things.

So be sure to master nouns,

Like "Love"" and "Goose" and"Toys" and "Clowns. "