Reflect and respond
notice the nouns around you. look for nouns wherever you go. nouns are in newspapers, websites, letters, addresses, billboards, television shows, food containers, shopping lists, and receipts. write down at least 10 nouns each day for a week. look your words up in a dictionary to make sure that you’ve identified them correctly as nouns.

Monday

sugar

happiness

London

rain

family

religion

dog

cinema

school

tea

Tuesday

bookstore

apartment

New York

cat

children

daughter

danger

football

eye

rice

Wednesday

England

dream

bear

boy

advertisement

Christmas

army

childhood

iron

student

Thursday

hair

anger

Shakespeare

chair

bird

truth

government

dinner

money

TV

Friday

darkness

soup

science

blood

evening

Spain

grass

salt

friendship

jury

Saturday

weekend

gold

violence

Europe

food

staff

bees

news

nature

wedding

Sunday

death

crowd

July

History

water

hamburger

health

Franklin Roosevelt

stress

car

Explanation:

In English, there are different types of nouns, as follows:

Common nouns – refer to things or people in general.

e.g. son, daughter, city, breakfast, etc.

Proper nouns – a name that determines a particular person or place; this type of nouns begins with capital letters.

e.g. London, Europe, Monday, July, Shakespeare, etc.

Concrete nouns – objects or people that exist physically and can be touched, heard, smelled, or tasted.

e.g. dog, cat, coffee, house, snow...

Abstract nouns – refer to ideas, concepts or qualities that cannot be seen and have no physical reality.

e.g. death, happiness, friendship, time, etc.

Collective nouns – refer to groups of things or people

e.g. family, government, audience, staff, etc.

Countable nouns –  refer to things or persons that can be counted. These nouns have both singular and plural forms.

e.g. dollar, year, person, etc.

Uncountable nouns – refer to things that cannot be counted. These nouns have only the singular form.

e.g. water, sugar, rice, money, etc.

the answern should be b, if it is the part where the mob has gathered

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.