Common Nouns
What is a common noun?
It is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea in general.
What is a proper noun?
Is the name of a particular person, place, animal, or thing.
What is a possessive noun?
A noun that shows possession.
A noun that indicates that something belongs to a person.
What is a collective noun?
A noun that names a group of things, animals, or people.
What is a clause?
Say a common noun that is a place.
mall - park - house - garden - school - etc.
Merida, Mexico, Canada, Altabrisa, etc.
How do you spell a possessive noun?
n o u n ' s
Say a collective noun that refers to people.
family, band, choir, class, group, etc.
Which are the types of clauses?
Dependent & Independent.
Say a common noun that is a person.
boy - girl - student - dad - mom - uncle - etc.
Say a proper noun that is not a person, place, thing, or animal.
Days of the week, months of the year, celebrations, brands, companies, etc.
How do you spell a possessive noun that ends with "s"?
n o u n s '
Herd, pack, flock, colony, pod, school, etc.
What is a dependent clause?
A clause that has a subject and verb, but it can't stand alone, it needs more information because it is not a complete idea.
It starts with a subordinating conjunction.
Happiness, intelligence, sadness, empathy, etc.
What are the proper nouns in the sentence?
Yesterday my best friend betty told me that her birthday is in october.
Betty - October
Replace the cursive word with a possessive noun.
We all went to his house to celebrate.
Any boy name in the possessive form.
Pedro's, Matias'
Which is the collective noun in the sentence?
My mom saw a swarm in the garden.
Swarm = group of bees.
What's an independent clause?
It is a clause that has a subject and a verb, it can stand alone because it is a complete idea.
I invited her to come to my house.
I invited my friend-sister-cousin-girl-etc...
Replace the cursive word with a proper noun.
It has a beautiful beach, I love to go there for vacation.
Name of a place with beach.
Replace the cursive word with a possessive noun.
My mom found his homework.
Any boy name in the possessive form.
Pedro's - Matias'
Which is the collective noun in the sentence?
The is a big colony in the jungle.
Colony = group of frogs, beavers, frogs.
Identify the dependent and the independent clauses.
I was playing with my friends because I finished my chores on time.
Independent: I was playing with my friends
Dependent: because I finished my chores on time.