Proper/Common
A ________ noun names any person, place, thing or idea.
What is a common noun?
This type of noun names something that can be seen or touched.
What is a concrete noun?
A _____________ names who or what owns or has something.
What is a possessive noun?
What does a collective noun do?
What is name a group of individuals.
This noun works with another noun to identify it or add information.
What is an appositive?
Identify the common nouns in the sentence: The squirrel climbed the oak tree to gather acorns.
What are squirrel, tree, acorns?
List the abstract nouns in the sentence: Our entire industrial civilization grew out of this important knowledge.
What is civilization and knowledge?
You must add this when making a contraction.
What is an apostrophe?
Nouns and verbs must always _________ in sentences.
What is agree?
Where is an appositive typically located in a sentence?
What are the beginning, middle or end?
Identify the proper nouns in the sentence: My ancestors came from Germany, Ireland and Scotland.
What are Germany, Irelend, Scotland?
List the concrete nouns in the sentence: People with imagination have been inventing things from the earliest time.
What are people and things?
Make the following possessive: monkeys tails
monkey's tails
What is the collective noun in the following sentence: The chorus (agrees, agree) about which song it will sing.
What is agrees?
Identify the appositive in the sentence: Bacteria the food spoilers could not enter when the containers were sealed.
What is the food spoilers?
Identify all the nouns in the sentence: My sister traveled to Nepal to climb Mt. Everest.
What are sister, Nepal, Mt. Everest
Identify both the concrete and abstract nouns in the sentence: New inventions have often caused anger among workers in factories.
What are: Abstract: anger
Concrete: inventions, workers, factories
Which sentence has a possessive noun?
The satellite's an invention with many uses.
The satellite's uses are many.
The satellite's uses are many.
What is the collective noun in the sentence: The class give their various opinions about the issue. Is it singular or plural?
What is class and plural?
When an appositive is in the middle of a sentence, how many commas are used?
What is two?
Identify all the nouns in the sentence: Jerry played his Honer harmonica in the school's fifth grade band.
What are: Jerry, harmonica, school's, band
What are the concrete and abstract nouns in the sentence: With the improvememt in vehicles, people began to travel to other lands.
What are: Concrete: vehicles, people, lands
Abstract: improvement
In the sentence, Elaine's going to the museum, is Elaine's a contraction or a singular possessive noun?
What is a contraction?
What is the collective noun in the sentence: The musical group (performs, perform) its latest hit.
What is performs?
Identify the appositive and tell where the comma(s) go: The medal I was awarded gold was for winning the 100 yard dash.
What is ,gold,?