Singular & Plural Nouns
When you have one noun we call this kind of noun this.
What is Singular
What are common nouns.
These types of nouns are the nouns that we can use our five senses to see, feel, hear, taste, or smell.
What are concrete nouns.
The contraction for will not is this.
What is "won't".
Identify the appositive in the following sentence. The dog, a Siberian husky, ran the famous dog sled race in Alaska.
What is "a Siberian husky".
When you have more than one noun we refer to the noun as being this.
What is plural.
These are important nouns like cities, names, or months of the year. We capitalize these nouns.
What are proper nouns
These types of nouns you just know are nouns, but you can not use your five senses to help you locate them. You must think and feel about these nouns
What are abstract nouns.
What is 's.
Identify the appositive in the following sentence. Mr. Niese's favorite student, James Smith, was able to get away with more than the other students during class.
What is "James Smith".
When a noun changes form or does not add an -s or -es to the end of the noun we refer to these kinds of nouns as this.
What is irregular.
spell the plural form of the noun "church", then tell if church is common or proper.
What is "churches" and common.
When you have a large group of something or someone but you refer to that group as being singular we call these types of nouns this.
What is collective.
When showing ownership to a plural noun ending in -s, you should add this ending.
Identify the appositive in the following sentence. The teacher tried hard to make the students understand the assignment, graphing equations.
What is graphing equation.
Name the five endings that cause an -es to be added to a noun to form a plural form of the noun.
What is -s, -sh, -ch-, -x, and -z
spell the plural form of the noun puppy. Then tell if it is common or proper.
What is "puppies" and common.
Tell if the following noun is concrete, abstract, or collective. The school's choir put on a wonderful show at Christmas time. (choir)
What is collective.
When showing ownership to an irregular plural noun (ex. geese), you should add this ending.
What is 's
Identify the appositive in the following sentence. With the storm coming from the west, Indiana and Iowa, the players watched the sky for their safety.
What is Indiana and Iowa.
What is the rule for form plural nouns from singular nouns ending in -y. (give both the vowel -y and consonant -y rule)
What is a word ending in a vowel -y, just add -s.
A word ending in -consonant-y, change the -y to -i and add -es
Give three categories of nouns that require a capital letter because they are proper nouns. (ex. names)
What are......places, businesses, cities, towns, states, countries, continents, oceans, rivers, lakes, ect.
Tell if the following noun is concrete, abstract, or collective. The student had many good thoughts about the plan for camp. (thoughts)
What is abstract.
Tell if the following is a contraction or a possessive phrase: It's too early to tell if the class won the prize.
What is contraction.
Give the definition for appositives or appositive phrases in grammar.
What is a word or group or words that give(s) additional information about a noun and is surrounded by commas.