Kinds of Nouns
What do nouns name?
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
What is a compound noun?
What is a noun of two or more words?
What is a collective noun?
What is a noun that names a group of people, animals, things considered as a unit?
Only ______ work in this store; woman, women, womens
What are women?
Change the following group of words into another word group that has a possessive noun: The ferrets that Emory has
What are Emory’s ferrets?
What nouns name general classes of things?
What is a common noun?
Which one out of the three is a compound noun? chorus, toothpaste, committee
What is toothpaste?
- Find the collective noun(s) in the following sentence: The crowd sounded like a herd of elephants when the team scored a goal
What is crowd, elephants, and team?
The store has a lot of ______; potatos, potato, potatoes
What are potatoes?
Change the following group of words into another word group that has a possessive noun: the homework that the students have
What is the students’ homework?
What type of noun names ideas, feelings, or qualities?
What is an abstract noun?
Name the compound noun(s) in this sentence? Kaitlin is a great classmate to have in school and I like our friendship.
What are classmates and friendships?
Find the collective noun(s) in the following sentence: The class had sat with their families and watched the eighth-grade cast perform their play
What are class, family, cast?
Make sister-in-law plural in this sentence: I am visiting my sister-in-law this week
What are sisters-in-law?
Change the following group of words into another word group that has a possessive noun: the tiara that the princess has
What is The princess’s tiara?
Name and label the common and proper nouns in the following sentence ; Emory swiftly ran towards the alpha wolf in Utah.
What is common - wolf , proper - Emory + Utah?
Name the compound noun(s) in this sentence? Maeve, the daredevil, decided at lunchtime to take a music box to the teachers room.
What are daredevils, lunchtimes, and music boxes?
Which is a collective noun: orchestra or musicians
What is an orchestra?
What is the plural spelling of donkey?
What are donkeys?
Change the following group of words into another word group that has a possessive noun: the eggs that the geese have
What are the geese’s eggs?
Name and label the concrete and abstract nouns in the following sentence ; Irelyn and her dog wept in sorrow.
What is concrete - Irelyn + dog , abstract - sorrow?
Name the compound noun(s) in this sentence? In the afternoon I had a blueberry and then spotted footprints outside by my playhouse.
What are blueberries, footprints, and playhouses?
Is an aerie a collective noun?
What is yes?
What is the plural spelling of calf?
What are calves?
Change the following group of words into another word group that has a possessive noun: the turtle that the sisters-in-law have
What are the sisters-in-law’s turtle?