Noun Basics: Singular, Plural & Collective
What type of noun names more than one person, place, thing, or idea (such as dogs or cities)?
What is a plural noun?
Unlike common nouns, proper nouns must always begin with this type of letter.
What is a capital letter?
This type of noun names something that can be perceived by at least one of the five senses.
What is a concrete noun?
Identify the personal pronoun in this sentence: "She read three chapters before falling asleep."
What is She?
Reflexive and intensive pronouns both end in these two word suffixes depending on whether they are singular or plural.
What are -self and -selves?
Identify the collective noun in this sentence: "The jury reached a verdict after hours of deliberation."
What is jury?
Identify the proper noun in this sentence: "We crossed the Mississippi River on our road trip."
What is Mississippi River?
Classify the noun freedom as either concrete or abstract.
What is an abstract noun?
Identify the possessive pronoun in this sentence: "That notebook on the table is mine."
What is mine?
Is the italicized pronoun reflexive or intensive? "The principal himself handed out the diplomas."
What is intensive?
Identify the relative pronoun and the subordinate clause it introduces in this sentence: "A famous writer who is associated with the Mississippi is Mark Twain."
What is the relative pronoun "who" and the clause "who is associated with the Mississippi"?
Identify the two indefinite pronouns in this sentence: "Few are ever found, but everyone keeps looking."
What are few and everyone?
Identify the abstract noun in this sentence: "Her honesty impressed the entire class."
What is honesty?
Identify the pronoun type used in this question: "Which is the largest state bordering the Mississippi River?"
What is an interrogative pronoun?
Is the italicized pronoun reflexive or intensive? "Maya bought herself a new jacket."
What is reflexive?
Identify all the nouns in this sentence and state whether each is singular or plural: "The students left their backpacks under the desk."
What are students (plural), backpacks (plural), and desk (singular)?
Identify the three proper nouns and one common nouns in this sentence: "In July, Sarah visited the museum in Chicago."
What are July, Sarah, and Chicago (proper nouns) and museum (common noun)?
Identify the one abstract noun and the two concrete nouns in this sentence: "The bravery of the firefighter saved the cat."
What is bravery (abstract) and firefighter and cat (concrete)?
Correct the error in this sentence: "The dog wagged it's tail when its owner arrived."
What is changing "it's" to "its" (possessive pronoun) and "its" to "it's" (or making it "The dog wagged its tail when its owner arrived")?
What is the key functional difference between a reflexive pronoun and an intensive pronoun in a sentence?
What is a reflexive pronoun is necessary to the meaning of the sentence (it reflects back to the subject), whereas an intensive pronoun simply adds emphasis and can be removed without changing the sentence structure?
A noun that names a group composed of individual members, such as flock, team, or committee, is called this.
What is a collective noun?
In the sentence "The president gave a speech, but President Lincoln was the most memorable," explain why the first "president" is lowercased and the second is capitalized.
What is because the first "president" is a common noun used generally, while the second is a proper noun used as a title attached to a specific person's name?
Explain why music can be classified as a concrete noun even though you cannot touch or see it.
What is because it can be perceived by the sense of hearing?
Name all the personal and possessive pronouns in this sentence: "He told us that his car was cleaner than ours."
What are He (personal), us (personal), his (possessive), and ours (possessive)?
Words like this, that, these, and those point out specific items and belong to this pronoun category.
What are demonstrative pronouns?