Definitions Part I
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
A type of noun that refers to the general names of a person, place, or thing (student, school, pencil).
What is a common noun?
Martha and my aunt will be flying in from New York this afternoon. Find the proper noun(s).
What is Martha and New York?
The waves rolled along the shore in a graceful, gentle rhythm. Find the adjective(s).
What are graceful and gentle?
Give me an example of a person, place, and thing that are all common nouns.
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(example: What is a mother, cafeteria, and book?)
It names a specific person, place, or thing.
What is a proper noun?
This type of noun always needs capitalization.
What is a proper noun?
A flock of birds rose from the green mist and took to the air. Find the collective noun(s).
What is a flock?
The waves rolled along the shore in a graceful, gentle rhythm, as if dancing with the land.
What pronoun could replace the word waves?
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What is they?
Give me two examples of an abstract noun that starts with the letter j.
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What is... jealousy; joke; justice; joy; January; justification
It describes a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
Can be directly experienced through the five senses (computer, iphone, TV).
What is a concrete noun?
Miami is one of the most interesting places to visit in Florida. Find the adjective(s).
What is interesting?
Give me three examples of an abstract noun that start with the letter h.
What are happiness, hate, and hunger?
hope, hopelessness
Give me an example for a person, place, and thing that are all proper nouns.
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What is Mr. McKay, Chick-Fil-A, and Apple?
It replaces a noun in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?
Can't be directly experienced through the five senses (happiness, death)
What is an abstract noun?
After school, there is always so much traffic! Find the mass noun(s).
What is traffic?
Give me three examples of an adjective that starts with the letter l.
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What is loud, lovely, little?
Give me an example of a mass noun that starts with the letter s.
What is.... smoke, sheep, slang, software, spaghetti, starvation, steam, sugar, salt, steel, stuff, support, etc.
Refers to a group of people or things.
What is a collective noun?
This noun can't be counted and it has no plural form.
What is a mass noun?
The weather is too hot for October! Find the abstract noun(s).
What are weather and October?
Give me three examples of a pronoun.
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What is he, she, it, I, you, we, they, you?
Give me three examples of a collective noun.
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What is family, team, group, flock, herd, tribe, etc.?