Nouns in General
Nouns as Subjects
Common & Proper Nouns
Singular & Plural Nouns
Possessive Nouns
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Nouns are words that name persons, places, things, and ideas.
What is a noun?
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What is a noun used as a simple subject?
A noun that tells whom or what a sentence is about.
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What is a common noun? What is a proper noun and what must a proper noun have?
A common noun is a general name for persons, places, things, or ideas. A proper noun names a particular person, place, thing, or idea. Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
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What is a singular noun? What is a plural noun?
A singlular noun names one person, place, thing, or idea. A plural noun names more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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What is a possessive noun?
A possessive noun is a noun that shows ownership.
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Give 3 nouns that name persons.
Answers will vary. Example-principal, sister, Mr. Bulk
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What is the simple subject of this sentence? The sun melted our snowman.
Sun
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Is this noun common or proper? flower
common noun
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Is the underlined word in the sentence singular or plural? The fox ran into the woods.
Singular
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What is the first thing you have to do before you can make a noun show possession? Why?
Decided whether the noun is singular or plural because it helps you figure out how the possession is formed.
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Give 3 nouns that name places.
Answers will vary. Example-school, Kansas, forest
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What is the simple subject of this sentence? Carrie put her letter into the mailbox.
Carrie
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Is this noun common or proper? the white house
proper. the White House
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Name 3 plural nouns.
Answers will vary
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If a noun is singular, how do you form the possession? Give an example.
To make a singular noun show ownership, add an apostrophe and s. Example: builder, builder's or Sally, Sally's
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Give 3 nouns that name things.
Answers will vary. Example-magnet, jeans, pencil
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What is the simple subject of this sentence? My sister has green eyes.
sister
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What is a proper noun that this common noun makes you think of? cereal
Answers will vary. Example: Fruit Loops, Trix, etc.
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Choose the correct plural form of the noun. party A. parties B. partyes C. partys
A. parties -if the noun ends in a consonant + y, change the y to i and add -es
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If a noun is plural and already ends in s, how do you form the possession? If the noun is plural and does not end in s, how do you form the possession? Give an example of each.
If the plural noun ends in s, add an apostrophe after the s. If the plural noun does not end in s, add an apostrophe and an s after the apostrophe. Example: girls, girls' & men, men's
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What is an abstract noun? Name one abstract noun.
Abstract nouns name things you cannot see. Example-friendship, thought, Saturday
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Create your own sentence using a simple subject noun. Then identify the simple subject.
Answers will vary.
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Name 3 common nouns and 3 proper nouns.
Answers will vary. Example: Common Nouns-book, school, girl, Proper Nouns-Pacific Ocean, Mrs. Thorpe, Friday
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Choose the correct plural form of the noun. shelf A. shelfs B. shelves C. shelfes
B. shelves -for some nouns ending in f or fe, change the f to v and add -es or -s
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Choose the possessive form of the underlined noun. The teacher graded all of the students tests. A. students' B. students C. student's
A. Students' -this is a plural noun that already ends in s, so the apostrophe goes after the s.
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