Types of Nouns
Noun Definition.
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
What is a specific person, place, or thing?
Spell the plural form of baby.
What is b-a-b-i-e-s?
babies.
Spell the plural form of leaf.
What is l-e-a-v-e-s?
leaves.
The parents of those girls.
What is: the girls' parents?
A bear.
What is a thing?
superhero
What is a common noun?
Spell the plural form of monkey.
What is m-o-n-k-e -y-s?
monkeys
The plural form of child.
What is children?
The books the children borrowed.
a teacher.
What is a person?
Mrs. Sullivan
What is a proper noun?
Spell the plural form of student.
What is s-t-u-d-e-n-t-s?
students.
The plural form of man.
What is men?
The pencils belonged to Mrs. Maddock.
What is: Mrs. Maddock's pencils?
Freedom.
What is an idea?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is a proper noun?
Spell the plural form of batch.
What is b-a-t-c-h-e-s?
batches.
The plural form of sheep.
What is sheep?
The tooth of the dog.
What is: the dog's tooth?
What is a place?
A way to identify a proper noun.
What is: it always starts with a capital letter?
What is: it names a specific person, place, or thing?
A spelling rule for plural nouns.
What is: add 's' to most nouns.
What is: add 's' to nouns ending in 'y' and a vowel before the y.
What is: when there is a consonant before the 'y', drop the 'y' and add 'ies'.
What is: add 'es' to nouns ending in ch, sh, x, ss, s
The rule to make most singular nouns ending in 'f' plural.
What is: change the 'f' to 'ves'?
What is: if the noun is plural and ends in an s, the apostrophe comes after the s.
OR
What is: if the noun is an irregular plural noun and does not end in s, add an apostrophe then s.