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Singular/Plural
Common/Proper
Concrete/Abstract
Collective/Possessive
Specific or Nonspecific Nouns
100
A noun that names one person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a singular noun?
100
A noun that is specific and capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
100
Triple! The girl's dog was ugly. (concrete senses)
What is smell, touch, hear, and see?
100
A word that names a group of things.
What is a collective noun?
100

The person donated a cup of coffee. (Identify the non-specific nouns)

person- nonspecific

coffee- nonspecific

200
A noun that names more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a plural noun?
200
The basketball team will play scott central high school. (proper nouns)
What is Scott Central High School?
200
Triple! The waves from the large boats disturbed the swimmers while they were in the ocean. (concrete)
What is waves, boats, swimmers, and ocean?
200
Double! A word that shows ownership for one person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a singular possessive noun?
200

The tulips are starting to pop out of the ground. (specific or non-specific noun)

Tulip - specific

300
The girl rode to the store so that she could get a book to read to her little sister. (Amount of singular)
What is 4?
300
Double! The teacher graduated from a college. (replace with proper nouns)
What is Ms. Henry graduated from Mississippi State University?
300
Her love was like a rainbow in the sky. (concrete and abstract noun)
What is love-abstract, and concrete rainbow and sky?
300
The unit was too hard for the students. (collective)
What is a unit?
300

Change the non-specific noun to a specific noun. In the center of the ring was a large stone.

change stone to diamond, or other gemstone

400
The girls rode their horses to the store because their bike tires were too low. (Number of plural)
What is 3?
400
Lisa told Greg to talk with Obama about the bill. (replace with common nouns)
What is The girl told the boy to talk with the president about the bill?
400
The smell was too bad for us to stay in the room. (abstract)
What is a smell?
400
Bird's of a feather flock together. (correct form)
What is birds?
400

Change the specific noun to a non specific noun.

The pianist played well.

pianist - woman

500
Double! The singular form of shorts.
What is shorts?
500
ken, and joyce, ken's wife, work for the leake county school district. (proper nouns)
What is Ken, Joyce, Ken's, Leake County School District?
500
Double! The water was too cold for the mermaids so they remained on the beach. (concrete and abstract)
What is concrete, water, mermaids, and beach?
500
The team (work, works) to win the game.
What is works?
500

The store was packed with shoppers trying to get Black Friday deals. (What is the nonspecific noun?

store