My 8 year old son needs to give examples of general nouns for the words teacher, school and receptionist thx?
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I think a general noun is a noun that is non-specific. i.e. bird rather than dove etc\nIf that is the case then teacher would be professional or maybe educator. School would be institution and receptionist would be job or administrator.
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descriptive words are verbs, try looking for that.... sorry that might not help much...... :(\n\ngood luck
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The word 'noun' is a noun.
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Good explanations with examples here: http://www.mansfieldct.org/schools/MMS/staff/hand/convcondrad.htm
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Here are some ideas.  And you could modify them based on your time limit and the grade level.  Best of luck.\n\nhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/profbooks/spotlitestrongverbs.pdf\n\nhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/profbooks/adverbcharades.pdf\n\nhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/profbooks/predicates.pdf
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Thursday :\nOUTCAST\nSPEAR \nSLUR \nDISGRACE \nGLUTTON \nFEUD \nSTARVING \nARGUE \nDEVIANT \nMOSQUITO \nBLAME \nADOPTED \n\nFriday:\nMAINLAND \nSHIPWRECK \nCRITICIZE \nISOLATION \nTHERAPY \nFEVER\nMELTDOWN \nALLIANCE \nMALARIA \nTWIST\nGOBBLE \nBACKSTAB \n\nSaturday: \nMONKEY \nFLARE \nAWKWARD \nBANDANA \nLOST \nWISHBONE \nHUT\nQUICKSAND\nTIDE\nSTUBBORN\nJUNGLE\nTRAITOR\n\nSunday:\nSKELETON\nNATIVE\nDENIAL\nKHAKI\nBAMBOO\nCORNUCOPIA\nCHEATER\nTIKI\nFAILURE\nHARVEST\nCOCONUT\nINSULT
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Many\nUndressed\nFreaks\nTopless\nUndoing\nBras
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They're called COLLECTIVE nouns. Find out more about them here: http://www.vigay.com/nouns/
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Part of it depends upon your level of education!\n\nI believe this is the number of words it is suggested children know when they leave primary school.   The 200 words does not include adding endings to words (eg, ~ed, ~s, ~er, ~ing.   An example would be work: worked, works, worker, working).\n\nIt also depends upon whether you are talking about the spoken or the written word.   \n\nJust think, this answer includes 78 words, but only  50 different ones!
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dear teacher,\n\npushing : closing the door,window,and the swing and \n\npulling: the cover of a package , or the cover of a book\n\npushing :needs their force to push the object away from them \npulling ; needs their force to bring things or object towards them\n\nrelax! they are little buds with innocent minds and a big heart..\nthey will soon learn when you can associate the theme of your lesson colourfully and may be with a song.. children love colours and music..so try this recipe!\n\nall the best !
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CRAYON\nCARNY\nCRONY\nACORN\nRAYON\nCORNY\nYARN\nCONY\nROAN\nCYAN\nNARY\nNARC\nCORN\nRACY\nNOR\nYON\nCOY\nRAY\nNAY\nOAR\nCON\nRAN\nCRY\nCAR\nCAN\nARC\nANY\nCAY
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Try using a thesaurus with the key words of the definition. I would start with m-w.com (Merriam-Webster)
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Actually the asker is correct:.. there are,\nabstract\nmaterial\ncommon\nproper \ncollective\n\nall nouns\nIn the case of hair..it is a material noun.\n\nexample: What would you do with this sand?\nWill you be cutting my hair?  Is my hair dry?\n\nI didn't know, I had to research it..   One on me, learned something.
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Basic English words:\nGreetings, salutations and goodbyes\nMoney matters, colors, clothing names\nShopping words:  How much?  How many?  Where can I find the _______" and such things\nRelationships within a family\nEducation/school things
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Algebra--U\nBiology--R\nEnglish--L\nPE--     A\nArt--    M\nSpanish--E
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Altavista.com has this thing called babblefish or something like that. I used it for French homework once. (you didn't hear that! *lol*) Admittedly, it sometimes translates things too literally, for instance it disregards French idioms, (that is, sayings that are phrased differently but mean the same thing) but for simple things, and single words, it works well. Good luck!
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You could always use a thesaurus (including online thesaurus like http://thesaurus.reference.com/) and put in a couple of words and seek synonyms. Make sure you check the definition one last time though before giving them to a kid. Good luck!