Each pupil may give the name of something in the room; the name of a
distinguished person; a name that may be applied to a class of persons; the
name of an animal; the name of a place: the name of a river; the name of a
mountain; the name of something which we cannot see or touch, but of which
we can think; as, _beauty_, _mind_.

Remind the pupils frequently that these _names_ are all _nouns_.

NOUNS.

+DEFINITION.--A _Noun_ is the name of anything+.

Write in columns, headed _nouns_, the names of domestic animals, of garden
vegetables, of flowers, of trees, of articles sold in a dry goods store,
and of things that cannot be seen or touched; as, _virtue_, _time_, _life_.

Write and arrange, according to the following model, the names of things
that can _float_, _fly_, _walk_, _work_, _sit_, or _sing_.

_Nouns_.
Cork |
Clouds |
+Model+.--Wood + floats or float.
Ships |
Boys |

Such expressions as _Cork floats_ are _sentences_, and the nouns _cork_,
_ship_, etc., are the subjects. You will find that _+every subject+ is a
+noun+ or some word or words used for a noun_.