Types of Nouns
Define common noun.
What is a general name of a person, place, or thing?
Ex: mayor, business, backpack
Spell the plural form of the following noun:
country
What is countries?
Tell the possessive noun in the following sentence:
I like looking at my friend's rock collection.
What is friend's?
Tell what needs to be capitalized in the following sentence:
herbert lang and james chapin explored africa in 1909.
What is Herbert Lang, James Chapin, and Africa?
Tell the correct way to write the following date with the correct abbreviation and comma usage:
December 16 1773
What is Dec. 16, 1773?
Define proper noun.
What is it names a specific person, place, or thing?
Ex. Columbia Zoo, Mrs. Parker, Lake Thunderbird
Spell the plural form of the following noun:
woman
What is women?
Change the following phrase and use a singular possessive noun:
the price of the cup
What is the cup's price?
Tell how to correctly write the following title:
the tale of custard the dragon (poem)
What is "The Tale of Custard the Dragon"?
Give the correct abbreviation for centimeter and millimeter.
What is cm and mm?
Define abstract noun.
What is it names an idea?
Ex: courage, liberty, happiness
half
What is halves?
Change the following phrase and use a singular possessive noun:
the telescope that belongs to the museum
What is the museum's telescope?
Which nouns should be capitalized in the following sentence:
I learned the museum's history at the young naturalists' club last christmas.
What are Young Naturalists' Club and Christmas?
Insert the comma in the following city and state and give the correct abbreviation for the state:
Jacksonville Florida
What is Jacksonville, FL?
Define collective noun.
What is it names a group of people or things?
Ex: family, herd, flock
Spell the plural form of the following noun:
quiz
What is quizzes?
Give the plural possessive noun in the following sentence:
There were sketches of the trees' leaves in the book.
What is trees'?
Tell how to write the following title correctly:
ranger rick (magazine)
What is Ranger Rick? (Also underline)
Name the correct abbreviation for the word
Thursday.
What is Thurs.?
Name the nouns in the following sentence:
Zane saw dolphins at Sea World.
What are Zane, dolphins, and Sea World?
Spell the plural form of the following noun:
tomato
What is tomatoes?
Change the following phrase and use a plural possessive noun:
the necks of the geese
What is the geese's necks?
Tell how to capitalize the following title correctly:
old ironsides (poem)
What is "Old Ironsides"?
Tell where the comma should go in the following greeting:
Dear Skyler
Where is after Skyler?
Dear Skyler,