Proper vs Common Nouns
Choose the word that has a capitalization error.
Bruce Hand, the famous adventurer, was on his way to africa.
a. Hand b. famous
c. adventurer d. africa
d. Africa
It´s the name of Percy´s current, boarding school AND it´s the number of schools Percy has attended since first grade.
Yancy Academy ; six schools
It's the reason the Percy and Grover initially found themselves on the side of the road, opposite the three old ladies.
Their Greyhound Bus broke down
A simple definition of a pronoun is _______________.
a word that is used to replace a noun in a sentence.
Provide the single, plural, and collective form of the noun: bird
bird , birds, and flock
Choose the word that has a capitalization error.
He was searching for a rare plant that could cure Athlete's foot.
a. Athlete's b. plant
c. rare d. foot
d. Foot
It's the location where Percy and his classmates take a field trip during chapter one.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC)
The sub-headings: "Three Old Ladies Knit the Socks of Death" and "I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher" are examples of what literary device we've discussed in class.
Foreshadowing
True or False: Pronouns are only used when they are needed to replace a proper noun.
Example: "Kristen is a kindly witch doing magic in the Pocono Mountains. It is one of her favorite places in Pennsylvania."
Answer: False
Collective nouns refer to a ___________of people, animals, or things.
Example(s): a FLEET of ships; a HERD of cows; a HIVE of bees.
whole group
TWO PART ANSWER: A proper noun can be defined as anything you can "see", "touch" or ___________. Also, because it is a proper noun it must _________________.
possess ; be capitalized
The three ancient (old) women are knitting these items, at this roadside location (describe the location)
They are knitting socks at a roadside fruit stand
While Percy Jackson is preparing to return to his mother's apartment in NYC, he imagines that most of his boarding school classmates are preparing to __________.
Go on vacation / winter break
When author's use foreshadowing they provide hints about ___________.
what will happen next (or later on) in the story
A "pod" refers to the collective noun used to describe this group of aquatic mammals that we discussed in this class.
whales
Choose the word that has a capitalization error.
"Everybody knows the famous Adventurer, Bruce Hand," she replied.
a. Adventurer b. she
c. famous d.Hand
a. Adventurer
It's the personal item that Mr. Brunner loans Percy to help defend himself against Mrs. Dodds.
A ballpoint pen
Grover and Mr. Brunner have a meeting where they express concern that a _______________ has been spotted in the school. Subsequently, Percy later brings the name of the "thing" up to Grover, and Grover nearly jumps out of his seat.
A Kindly One
Make an inference:
You always get stopped at the traffic lights on the way to work. On this day, you’re stopped at the same traffic lights – but there’s a long, long line in front of you. It seems there’s heavy traffic, and you know from experience that you’ll likely be late to work if there’s such a long line at these lights. As you get closer to the traffic light you notice, orange safety cones, construction workers, and "NO PARKING HERE from September 12 - October 1" signs. What is most likely the cause of the traffic delay?
a. a traffic accident b. road construction / repaving
c. a broken traffic light d. a detour
b. road construction / repaving
An irregular noun is a noun that doesn't _____________ in order to make the noun plural. Instead, the noun is respelled entirely.
add an "s" at the end of the word
Choose the word that has a capitalization error.
"Kathy is from the Watutu Tribe, but she and Watsu Bangu met at the Sudan university of Technology.
a. Watutu b. Sudan
c. university d. of
c. University
It's ultimately the fate of Mrs. Dodds once she is defeated by Percy. i.e. in what manner does she die?
She is vaporized
Grover is more than Percy's friend at boarding school, he has been assigned his ___________, and he makes Percy promise that he'll let Grover walk him home from the bus station in NYC.
Protector
What is the antecedent of the pronoun "they" in the following sentence:
"It's been a long time since Ryan and Hudson visited the FunPlex in New Jersey. They haven't been there since 2023."
Ryan and Hudson
A _______________is the collective noun that refers to a whole group of geese. There is a popular IDIOM stating that, "if it's good for one of these animals, it's good for _____ (the entire group of these animals)
a gander