Find the Nouns
The baby spit out the green peas.
What is baby and peas.
What is the common noun and the proper noun in this sentence?
The teacher visited Columbia University.
What is “teacher” (a general, common noun) and “Columbia University” (a specific, proper noun)?
What is the collective noun in this sentence?
The team celebrated after winning the championship.
What is team?
Identify which word is a concrete and abstract noun.
By the time she left for school Melinda wished for peace from her crazy house.
What is peace and time (abstract) , school, Melinda, house (concrete)?
What is the correct possessive for "Spain "?
Salvador Dali, a painter who lived from 1904 to 1989, was one of Spain most popular artists.
What is...Spain's
Computers are very smart, but humans still outsmart machines.
What is computers, humans, and machines.
Identify the common and proper nouns in the following sentence.
During her summer internship at NASA, Jessica kept a detailed journal of the experiments she observed in the Johnson Space Center and shared her findings with her classmates at Lincoln High School.
What are internship, journal, experiments, findings, classmates (common nouns) and NASA, Jessica, Johnson Space Center, Lincoln High School (proper nouns)?
Clue:
This singular collective noun can refer to a group of performers, such as musicians or actors, and sometimes emphasizes the group as a single entity rather than its individual members.
What is an orchestra?
Identify the abstract nouns in the sentence and explain why they are abstract:
"Her determination and courage helped her overcome every obstacle."
What are determination and courage, because they represent qualities or ideas that cannot be touched or seen?
What is the correct spelling for the plural form of the noun.
journey
What is...journeys
The library stores thousands of books.
What is library and books.
How many common and proper nouns are there in the following sentence?
During the winter break, Michael and his friends visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and took many photographs of the exhibits.
What is 4 common nouns (break, friends, photographs, exhibits) and 3 proper nouns (Michael, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)?
What are the nouns in this sentence, and which one is collective?
The flock of birds flew over the valley.
What are flock (a collective noun), birds (a common plural noun), and valley (a common singular noun) ?
How many concrete and abstract nouns are there in the following sentence?
There was only time for a few bites of his favorite cereal.
What is 2 concrete (bites, cereal) and 1 abstract (time)?
Identify the singular noun and the plural noun in the sentence:
"The teacher graded the essays of the students carefully."
What are teacher (singular) and students, essays (plural)?
The woman screamed when the man tried to steal her purse.
What is woman, man, and purse.
What would this sentence look like if you replaced the common nouns with specific proper nouns?
The girl traveled to a city in a country.
Example: What is Sophia traveled to Paris in France?
What is the collective noun in this sentence, and why is it singular even though it refers to many individuals?
The orchestra played a beautiful symphony
What is orchestra, a singular collective noun that names many musicians acting as one group?
What are the concrete and abstract nouns in the sentence?
Her ambition and creativity led her to design innovative machines that could improve everyday life.
What are machines and life (concrete nouns) and ambition and creativity (abstract nouns)?
Classify the nouns in this sentence as singular, plural, or possessive (some nouns may be classified as two)
"The scientist’s notes were compared to the researchers’ data during the conference."
What are scientist’s (singular possessive), notes (plural), researchers’ (plural possessive), data (plural), conference (singular)?
Mrs. Freeman loves coffee and chocolate cake!
What is Mrs. Freeman, coffee, cake.
What is the effect of using proper nouns instead of common nouns in writing? Use this example to explain:
a) The army marched through the city.
b) The Roman Army marched through Rome
What is the fact that (a) is general because it uses common nouns, while (b) is specific and clear because it names The Roman Army and Rome as proper nouns?
What is the difference in meaning between these two sentences?
a) The jury has reached its verdict.
b) The jury have taken their seats in the courtroom.
What is the fact that (a) treats jury as a single unit (singular) while (b) treats jury as individuals within the group (plural meaning)?
Could any of the concrete nouns also be interpreted metaphorically as abstract? Explain.
Determination and innovation allowed the engineers to design a skyscraper that could withstand earthquakes and strong winds.
What is: “Skyscraper” could metaphorically represent ambition or human ingenuity, giving it an abstract interpretation depending on context.
Identify the possessive nouns in the sentence and explain what each shows ownership of:
"The athletes’ determination and the coach’s guidance led the team to victory in the championship game."
What is: athletes’ shows that the determination belongs to the athletes, and coach’s shows that the guidance belongs to the coach?