LANGUAGENouns
Proper Nouns
Singular and Plural Nouns
NOUNS
Look around you.
What do you see?
A book? A chair?
Everything you see is a noun.
A noun names a person, place or thing.
Look for the nouns in the following sentences.
A boy from Florida brought his rabbit to
school in a cage.
The rabbit got out of the cage.
The boy ran after his rabbit.
It hopped down the hall and into the cafeteria.
It ate the salad.
All of the blue words are nouns.
Nouns name
people, places
and things.
Can you find the nouns in the following
sentences?
STOP1. My sister likes frogs.
2. The sandwich is on the table.
3. The lamp burned my finger.
4. The children played jump
rope on the playground.
5. Sarah saw paintings and art
at the museum.
PROPER NOUNS
Daytona Beach, Florida
George Washington
Fido
These nouns name a certain place, a certain person, or a
certain thing.
We call nouns that name specific people, places,
or things:
PROPER NOUNS.
All Proper Nouns must start with a capital
letter.Your name starts with a
capital letter.Your name is a Proper Noun.
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Can you fix the proper nouns.
Remember to capitalize it!
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president smith will
leave washington, d.c. in
january.
A noun can name one thing, or it can name more than one thing. Another name for just one of something is
singular.
All of these are
singular nouns.
car pencil pig
book cup computer
Another name for more than one thing is
plural.
Plural nouns name more than one person, place,
or thing.
All of these are
plural nouns.
cars pencils pigs
books cups computers
All you do to make
most nouns plural is
add the letter “s” to
the end of the word.
But some nouns already end in s, or ss. They
need an “es” at the end to make them plural.
bus = buses
dress = dresses
STOP Make these words plural.
recess
pass
mess
For nouns that end in
ch, sh, or x,
you also have to add
“es” to make them plural.
lunch = lunches
STOP Make these nouns plural.
wish
fox
bunch
There are some nouns that you don’t use “s” or “es”, instead you spell the word a new
way, like this:
foot = feet
STOP Make these nouns plural.
tooth
child
woman
man
Remember: Nouns
name people, places
and things.