Kinds of Nouns
What is a proper noun?
a name used for an individual person, place, or organization, spelled with initial capital letters
What collective nouns are used in this sentence? ( 2)
The field trip committee planned to take our class to Gettysburg.
Committee, Class
Nouns ending with s, x, z, sh, or ch
What is the ending?
-es
Find the possessive noun(s) in this sentence
Greyson's book is next to Mr. Ellis's coffee.
Greyson's book, and Mr. Ellis's coffee
Write the plural form of each noun.
mother in law
life
man
penny
Mothers in law
lives
men
pennies
What kind of nouns are ideas, qualities, and feelings
Abstract Nouns
What are the collective and compound nouns in this sentence?
After the trip with my class, our history club also visited the seashore.
Collective: Club, Class
Compound: Seashore
What is the singular form of Chinese?
Chinese
What is the possessive noun in this sentence ?
The neighborhood park is a mile from Chris's house.
Chris's
Write each noun. Label it C for common or P for proper
The French rode in their invention.
The balloon rose wit difficulty
S1: French-P, invention-C
S2: balloon-C
What are the proper nouns in this sentence?
George Washington, Ronald Reagan, and Grover Clevland were all once presidents.
George Washington, Ronald Reagan, Grover Clevland
Two or more words used as a single noun
Compound Noun
What is the plural form for loaf?
Loaves
For plural nouns that don't end in s; What do you do to make them possessive?
Add 's
Change each sentence to include a possessive noun
At harvest time the population of the town gathered to celebrate.
At harvest time the town's population gathed to celebrate.
Name 4 common nouns
(Answers may vary)
Examples: prison, pillow, chair, jam, coconut,car, shoes
How many compound nouns are used below?
My grandfather is a truck driver who lives in Hong Kong.
3
Grandfather, Truck driver, Hong Kong
What is the most common ending for singular nouns?
S
Write the correct possessive noun to to complete each phase.
Music by Mozart __________ Music
the house owned by the Walkers _________house
rights of the people the ___________ rights
Mozart's Music
Walkers' house
People's Rights
write the correct possessive noun to complete each phase
The moon of Earth ___________ moon
Notebooks belong to the school _________notebooks
Dinosuar of Timmy ___________ dinosaur
Drawings by Derrca _________ drawings
Earth's moon
School's notebooks
Timmy's dinosaur
Derrca's Drawing
Find each noun and label it concrete or abstract, and C for common and P for proper
Two pilots waved excitedly from the round platform.
People were flying for the first time in history.
People from America to Asia entered the Age of Flight.
S1:pilots-concrete-common, Platfrom-concrete-common
S2: People-concrete-common
S3: People-concrete-common, America-concrete-proper, Asia-concrete-proper, Age of Flight- abstract-proper
How many collective nouns are in this paragraph?
When we went to the play our class sat in the audience. The play was about a litter of kittens. My family will be back to the theater to see more plays
Change the words to their plural form
Mumps veto
Vietnamese ash
hoof ox
Mumps ashes
Vietnamese oxen
hooves
vetos
Rewrite this sentence to include a possessive noun
An apron of the server.
The server's apron.
Write the compound noun in each sentence.
The soldiers crossed Rio Grande for nothing.
Their homes were situated on steep mountainsides
Coronado opened the Southwest to many people
S1: Rio Grande
S2: Mountainsides
S3: Southwest