Unit09 Nouns
Unit09 Nouns
Unit09 Nouns
Nouns
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Nouns
Persons
Places
Things
Ideas
Common Noun
Proper Noun
People
actor
singer
athlete
Johnny Depp
Mariah Carey
Danica Patrick
Places
building
city
river
Tower of London
Tucson
Nile
Things
book
movie
song
Matilda
Pirates of the Caribbean
This Land Is Your Land
Nouns
There are two basic kinds of nouns: common nouns and proper
nouns.
A common noun names any person, place, thing, or idea.
A proper noun names a specific person, place, thing, or idea.
A proper noun may consist of one or more words. You should
always begin a proper noun with a capital letter. For proper nouns of
more than one word, capitalize the first word and all other important
words. Some examples of proper nouns are listed below.
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Identifying Nouns
Exercise 2
Nouns
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Exercise 3
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Add -es.
bus
buses
-o, preceded by a
vowel
Add -s.
cameo studio
cameos studios
-o, preceded by a
consonant
hero
heroes
potato
echo
potatoes echoes
zero
zeros
photo
photos
-y, preceded by a
vowel
Add -s.
day
days
donkey turkey
donkeys turkeys
-y, preceded by a
consonant
Usually change -y
to -i, and add -es.
city
cities
dairy
dairies
penny
pennies
-f or -fe
Usually change -f
to -v, and add -es.
leaf
leaves
life
lives
half
halves
roof
roofs
chief
chiefs
belief
beliefs
buzz
buzzes
box
boxes
stereo
stereos
piano
pianos
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radish
6.
box
7.
cherry
8.
watch
9.
country 10.
Nouns
Exercise 6
ant
banana
horseshoe
loaf
valley
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12.
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14.
15.
bush
bus
baby
piano
echo
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17.
18.
19.
20.
volcano
radio
self
mosquito
knife
Write each collective noun and label it S for singular or P for plural. Pay close
attention to the verb.
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2.
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10.
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Possessive Nouns
Nouns
Plural noun
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10.
Exercise 9
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woman
Ms. Smith
child
senior
family
SINGULAR
POSSESSIVE
PLURAL
NOUN
women
the Smiths
children
seniors
families
PLURAL
POSSESSIVE
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Grammar Review
NOUNS
Black Star, Bright Dawn by Scott ODell is about a young Inuit woman named
Bright Dawn who enters the Iditarod, a sled dog race. The race covers more than
a thousand snow-covered miles between Anchorage and Nome, Alaska. The
passage below shows some of the kinds of nouns covered in this unit.
Literature Model
Dawn
Common
noun
Nouns
Singular
noun
Plural noun
Collective
noun
Possessive
noun
Proper
noun
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Review: Exercise 1
1. The team raced from anchorage on the gulf of alaska to nome on the
bering sea.
2. The temperature rose as the inuit woman mushed across alaskas lonely,
open Wilderness.
3. As bright dawn raced over the moonlit Landscape, she became sleepy.
4. Bright Dawn dreamed of golden Salmon leaping from a broad River.
5. A Racer named oteg, who had befriended the young woman, woke her.
Review: Exercise 2
Nouns
Replace the underlined words with proper nouns. Use the information and
the literature model on page 325 to help you.
SAMPLE
ANSWER
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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Review: Exercise 3
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Review: Exercise 4
Nouns
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Review: Exercise 5
1. The mens faces looked doubtful when the young woman announced she
would compete.
2. Bright Dawn depended on her one lead dogs guidance.
3. Otegs advice also helped her during the race.
4. The young womans lead was erased when she stopped to help
other mushers.
5. Her parents eyes teared when Bright Dawn won.
Review: Exercise 6
Write a sentence using each of the following nouns in the possessive form
shown in parentheses.
Nouns
SAMPLE
ANSWER
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
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Review: Exercise 7
Proofreading
The following passage is about artist Rockwell Kent, whose work
appears on this page. Rewrite the passage, correcting the errors in
spelling, capitalization, grammar, and usage. Add any missing
punctuation marks. There are ten errors.
Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent (18821971) was an important american book
illustrator and landscape painter. 2Many of his paintings depicts the
open sea rugged mountains, and coastlines. 3Kent used these scenes to
convey peoples lonelyness.
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The artist visited alaska in 1918 and was inspired by the vast spaces
near the Arctic Circle. 5Kents experiences resulted in The Expedition.
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The painting, which depicts figures guiding their dogs and sleds, could
be an illustration for Black Star, Bright Dawn. 7Its easy to imagine the
lifes of these people.
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Review: Exercise 8
Mixed Review
Write all the underlined nouns. Label each one common or proper,
singular or plural, and possessive if it shows ownership.
SAMPLE
ANSWER
Nouns
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
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Writing Application
Nouns in Writing
GENERAL WORDS
thing, tool
THOMSONS VERSION
pick, ankus,
drawknife
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GENERAL WORDS
woman, people
THOMSONS VERSION
Kathy, watchers
SINGLE NOUNS
Nouns
noise, sound
THOMSONS VERSION
the thunk of
the slice into her bucket
Practice
Practice the techniques with nouns by revising the following passage. Use
a separate sheet of paper. Pay particular attention to the underlined words.
On one day, our teacher took our class to a zoo. We took our school things and
our food. The purpose of the visit was to study and compare the eating habits of different animals. A person from the place first led us to the monkey place. A man fed
the animals. They peeled the food and ate as they swayed from one place to another.
Then we went to observe the big cats. Lunchtime in their place was quite different.
They were serious as they tore apart their food. These animals were not thinking
about play. Later we ate our own food.
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