Singular & Plural Nouns
Plural of gallery
galleries
Subject in: Canada borders the United States on the north.
Canada
Direct object in: The wardrobe designers chose costumes.
costumes
Appositive in: Jazz, an American invention, is popular today.
an American invention (explains Jazz)
Singular possessive of Thomas
Thomas’s
Plural of knife
knives
Complement in: The capital of Canada is Ottawa.
Ottawa
Indirect object in: A local actress gave the cast free coaching.
cast
Restrictive or nonrestrictive? The jazz musician Wynton Marsalis was born in New Orleans.
Restrictive (needed to identify the noun)
Plural possessive of children
children’s
Correct plural: echo
echoes
Subject & complement in: My favorite hobby is reading mystery novels.
Subject = hobby; Complement = reading mystery novels
Object of preposition in: There was a huge round of applause for the actors.
actors
Appositive in: The trumpet, a brass instrument, is associated with jazz.
a brass instrument (explains trumpet)
Correct: the dogs collars
dogs’ collars
Fix this to plural: The child
The children
Linking or action verb? The puppies looked adorable.
Linking (looked = seemed/appeared)
Object complement in: The town paper named Emma the best actress.
best actress
Add commas: Their father Ellis Marsalis is a noted jazz pianist.
Their father, Ellis Marsalis, is a noted jazz pianist.
Joint or separate? Liam and Noah’s project was creative.
Joint (one project, owned together)
Which rule explains why ladies ends with –ies?
Consonant + y → change y to i and add -es
Identify complement: The star of the movie became a household name.
a household name
Find DO and IO in: The casting director assigned Claire the lead role.
DO = role; IO = Claire
Identify 2 appositives: The famous musician Louis Armstrong was the leader of the Hot Fives, a jazz band.
Louis Armstrong and a jazz band
Possessive of compound: mother-in-law
mother-in-law’s