All About Nouns
What is a noun?
A person, place, thing, or animal.
What is a common noun?
What is a proper noun?
A particular person, place, thing, or animal.
Parts of speech: What describes a noun?
Adjectives
What are the TWO types of Nouns?
Common and Proper Nouns
True or false: You DON'T have to capitalize common nouns.
True
Is your name a common or proper noun?
Common nouns are any person, place, thing or animal. Proper nouns are a particular person, place, thing or animal.
False.
Which one is a common noun?: Day or Wednesday
day
True or false: You DON'T have to capitalize proper nouns?
False
Are nouns descriptive words, action words, or naming words?
What are the nouns in this sentence:
The brown dog ran away because he had a plastic bottle.
-Dog
-Bottle
If the common noun is teacher, what would be the proper noun?
Examples: Ms. Lowe, Dr. C, Ms. Davis, Mr. Nelson, Mrs. Andrew
If the proper noun is Compass Community School, what is the common noun?
school
4 examples of common nouns and what the proper noun would be for it as well:
EXAMPLE: teacher-Ms. Lowe
Let me see your answers.
If I named everyone in this class, would the names be common or proper nouns?
Proper Nouns
Do proper nouns require a capital letter even if they don't start a sentence?
YES
Identify the common and proper noun in the sentence.
The girl wanted to play with John in Kingston at the park.
Common Nouns
girl, park
Proper Nouns
John, Kingston
DOUBLE: When you are finding nouns in a sentence, what is the annotation I ask you to do before telling me if it is a common or proper noun?