Nouns. Noun A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
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Nouns
NounA noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
A person
teacher chefstudent
doctor grandmawizard
A place
cabin
school
church
beach kitchen
A thing
baseballbed
bus
car
mouse
butterfly
Common and Proper Nouns
A common noun names a person, place, thing, or idea.
A proper noun names a particular person, place, things, or idea and begins with a capital letter.
Common Nouns Proper Nouns
book
pencil
house
cat
Statue of Liberty
President Obama
The White House
Golden Gate Bridge
Write common if the underlined word in each sentence is a common noun. Write proper if it is a proper noun. Title your paper Common and Proper Nouns and do 1-6.
1. Morgan Boulevard is a busy street. 2. We went on vacation to Oregon last year. 3. Did you see Kevin at the party? 4. Laura and Emily sang a song at the town
meeting. 5. The car stopped quickly. 6. Volunteers for 4-H clubs donate time and
money.
For number 7-8 under Common and Proper Nouns, write one sentence using two common nouns
and one proper noun.
Singular and Plural NounsA singular noun names only one
person, place, thing, or idea.A plural noun names more than
one person, place, thing, or idea.
Plural Nouns Add s to most singular nouns to make them
plural.
pencils books vegetables
basketballs cars
Plural NounsAdd es to a singular noun that ends in s, x, ch, and sh,
foxes
dishesglasses
sandwiches
brushes
Plural NounsIf the noun ends in a vowel and a y, add s.
keys
highwaystoys
monkeys boys
Plural NounsIf a noun ends in a consonant and a y, change the y to an i and add es
puppy ies
puppies
lady ies
ladies
bunny ies
bunnies
Is each noun Singular or Plural?
foot
gardens
father
names
years
tree
country
world
medicine
plants
scientists
neighborhood
goose
sandwiches
half
tools
On the back of the same sheet, title your paper Singular and Plural Nouns. Then whether the underlined nouns are
singular or plural for numbers 1-7? 1. You can have half of my pizza. 2. Please put all of the bottles
outside. 3. Mom bought a loaf of bread. 4. The blueberries stained my shirt. 5. I will cut the apple into halves. 6. Did you see the baby fox? 7. My neighbor's dog just had
puppies.
Some plurals do not follow the rules. Adding an s, es, or ies to the singular form of the
noun does not make it plural.
child childrenfoot feet
tooth teeth
goose geese
Special Plurals
shelf shelves
On the same sheet write the plural form of the following words.
8. goose
10. sheep
12. foot
14. supply
9. shelf
11. monkey
13. leaf
15. copy
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