Common & Proper Nouns
A person, place or thing
A noun
"The girl will be on time tomorrow." What is the noun?
girl
A singular noun is this.
A noun that is only one.
The plural form of the irregular noun "Person" is this.
People.
A possessive noun is a noun that shows this.
Possession or ownership over something.
A noun that is specific
A proper noun
Find the noun or nouns in the sentence.
"The crackling fire needs more wood."
fire, wood.
Class in it's plural form is this.
Classes
This changes when writing the plural form of an irregular noun.
The spelling
In order for a noun to be possessive, it needs to have this.
an apostrophe.
All proper nouns need to have this at the beginning
A capital letter
True or False: A sentence can have more than one noun in it.
True.
You add this to the end of most singular nouns to make them plural.
Add -s
In some cases, the plural and singular form of an irregular noun is this.
The same.
The possessive form of "school" is this.
School's
An example of a proper noun would be this.
Answers will vary.
The noun in the subject part of the sentence would be this.
"Twelve soccer players will travel to the game."
players
For nouns ending in s, ss, ch, sh or x you add this to the end to make it plural.
-es
The plural of "shrimp" is this.
shrimp.
The possessive form of "artists" is this.
artists'
A common noun in the sentence "Over the holiday, Uncle John and I played Monopoly together" would be this.
The noun in the subject is always found in this part of the sentence.
subject.
For singular nouns that end in a vowel and y, you add this to form the plural
-s.
example: turkey --> turkeys
Identify the irregular noun as singular or plural. "There is a moose crossing the street."
Singular.
Identify the possessive form of the noun in ( ).
"The (car) engine is really loud."
car's