This type of nouns ALWAYS begins with a capital letter.
What is a Proper noun?
100
Change the following noun to it's plural (spell it out for credit).
"wolf"
What are Wolves?
100
This type of noun expresses ownership or shows a relationship and is often followed by another noun.
What is a possessive noun?
100
1) These types of nouns refer to a group of people, animals, or things.
2) These types of nouns refer to two or more words that can be a single word, separate words, or hyphenated words.
What are 1) collective nouns and 2) compound nouns ?
200
Nate Brodi, Cora Perrone, Morgan Hipp, Liam Putz, Megan Cook, and Conor O'Brien are examples of these types of nouns.
What are people? ("Person, Proper nouns, or compound nouns" are acceptable)
200
True or False:
If a proper noun is made up of more than one word, you are supposed to capitalize every word.
What is False?
You are supposed to capitalize only the important words.
Ex: Gulf of Mexico, Statue of Liberty.
200
Identify the singular and plural nouns in this sentence:
"The woman yelled at the geese to stop leaving their droppings on her lawn."
What is
woman - singular
geese - plural
droppings - plural
lawn - singular
200
1) Identify where the apostrophe would go and 2) explain why.
- The two girls shoes.
What is
1)after the "s" in girls, and
2) because it's a plural noun that ends in "s."
200
Spell out the plural form of the nouns.
- monkey
- moose
- shelf
What are
- monkeys
- moose
- shelves
?
300
Science class, the golf course, Mr. Finn's class, and the gym are these types of nouns.
What are places?
300
Fill in the blanks.
1) A common nouns names _______ person, place, or thing. 2) A proper noun names a ________ person, place, or thing
What are 1) any and 2) specific (particular).
300
How to you make these nouns plural (spell for credit)?
- sky
- penny
- alley
What are
- skies
- pennies
- alleys
?
300
Change the following to a possessive noun (spell it out).
- The glove of Miguel Cabrera.
What is
"Miguel Cabrera's glove." ?
?
300
Jarod Sironen likes to impersonate this character from a movie series in the 1980s and 1990s.
What is Bernie from Weekend at Bernie's 1 and 2?
400
Name the types of nouns
1) An eraser, a firetruck, a desk, and a frog.
2) Decisions, hate, fear, a memory, and Fun
What are 1) a thing, and 2) an idea?
400
This is a dance we did in Mr. Cherrette's class (Winning team has to do the dance for points).
What is Proper nouns (hands up) / common nouns (hands down) dance?
400
Make these nouns plural (spell for credit).
- cello
- potato
- zoo
What are
- cellos
- potatoes
- zoos
?
400
Identify where the apostrophe goes (spell out the possessive noun).
- The samples of the salesperson.
What is
"The salesperson's samples." ?
400
Rewrite the phrase as possessive and spell it out.
- The class clown of the class.
What is
"The class's class clown?"
500
Name all the nouns in this sentence and the type:
(must name and label all for points hint: 6)
"The Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees played baseball this weekend, and Detroit went up two games to none."
What are:
1) Detroit Tigers - thing
2) New York Yankees - thing
3) baseball - thing
4) weekend - idea
5) Detroit - place
6) games - thing
500
Name each noun and capitalize the proper nouns
"The wright brothers worked with kites before they invented the first airplane at kitty hawk."
What are Wright Brothers, kites, airplane, and Kitty Hawk
500
Make these nouns plural (spell for credit).
- Foot
- Roof
- grapefruit
What are
- Feet
- Roofs
- grapefruit
?
500
Make each phrase possessive and spell the possessive word.
- "The lunch that a boy brought."
-AND-
"A science book used by 7th graders."
What is
"A boy's lunch."
&
"7th graders' science book."
500
What are the errors?
- Four puppys liked to chase kittenes near the water to try to catch the river's fishes.
What are
puppys - puppies
kittenes - kittens
fishes - fish
?