KINDS OF NOUNS
a _______is a word that names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
What is a noun?
A _______ names one person, place, thing or idea.
What is a singular noun?
A __________tells who or what owns or has something.
what is a possessive noun.
A _____ is a word made by combining two words and leaving out one or more letters. An apostrophe shows where the letters have been omitted.
What is a contraction?
a _______ names a particular person, place, thing, or idea.
what is a proper noun?
A _____ names more than 1 thing, person, person or idea.
What is a plural noun?
_____ and _______ are two different endings to plural words.
What are ('s) (s')
Why is the word speaker's a contraction?
singular, meant to say "speaker is"
_______ name things you can see or touch.
Make the work mother-in-law into a plural noun
What is mothers-in-law?
________ or _________ are special words that already end on S, but they are singular. To make them plural you add an ('s).
What two words made this contraction ( 'twas )
It + Was
_____ name ideas, qualities, and feelings that can't be seen or touched.
What are abstract nouns?
Usually you add an S when creating a plural noun. Sometimes you add an _________.
What is an ES?
turn men into a possessive noun.,
what is Men's?
Reverse "isn't" and "shouldn't" back into their original forms.
Is not and should not.
_____ are nouns made of two or more words.
what are compounds nouns?
Turn the word loaf into a plural noun, and spell it out loud.
What is LOAVES
Turn Tiger Woods into a possessive noun.
What is Tiger Woods's.
These types of writings do NOT use contractions.
What are academic papers, or anything formal.