Nouns

Nouns

Parts of Speech Day 1

Noun Definition

A noun is a word that refers to a thing (book), a person (Betty Crocker), an animal (cat), a place (Omaha), a quality (softness), an idea (justice)

Noun Categories

• Proper Nouns: a name used for an individual person(Lebron James), place(Millsboro), or organization(the Celtics), spelled with initial capital letters

• Common Nouns: Common nouns are words used to name general items rather than specific ones. Go into your living room. What do you see? A lamp, chair, couch, TV, window, painting, pillow, candle – all of these items are named using common nouns.

• Pronouns: are words that are used in place of or in reference to other nouns. i.e. I, me, him, her, us, we, they, them, it.

Multiple Choice

Which of the word choices is a noun : I want to go to the mall.

• mall

• I

• go

• want

Multiple Choice

Which of the word choices is a noun : The remote is missing.

• The

• remote

• is

• missing

Multiple Choice

Which of the word choices is a noun : Tom likes to eat a lot.

• eat

• Tom

• likes

• lot

Multiple Choice

Which of the word choices is a noun : I love to read my novel.

• love

• my

• novel

• read

Multiple Choice

Which of the word choices is a noun : Where is the rest of the pizza?

• Where

• rest

• of

• pizza

Multiple Choice

Which of the word choices is a noun : I really enjoy playing basketball.

• really

• enjoy

• playing

• basketball

Multiple Choice

Which of the word choices is a noun : His hat is on backwards.

• His

• hat

• on

• backwards

Multiple Choice

Which of the word choices is a noun : Those shoes are fire!

• Those

• shoes

• are

• fire

Multiple Choice

Which of the word choices is a noun : I am looking forward to going to the movies.

• am

• forward

• going

• movies

Multiple Choice

Which of the word choices is a noun : I left my book in my locker.

• left

• in

• my

• locker

Very good. Now we are going to identify whether nouns are proper or common.

Ask yourself, is it unique or is it common place?

Multiple Choice

Identify the underlined noun as common or proper : David has a really big dog.

• Proper

• Common

Multiple Choice

Identify the underlined noun as common or proper : Cats sleep most of the day.

• Proper

• Common

Multiple Choice

Identify the underlined noun as common or proper : My favorite team was the Jets.

• Proper

• Common

Multiple Choice

Identify the underlined noun as common or proper : She is always hanging out with that new kid.

• Proper

• Common

Multiple Choice

Identify the underlined noun as common or proper : Jesse ran for 80 yards last night.

• Proper

• common

Multiple Choice

Identify the underlined noun as common or proper : Montana is my favorite state.

• Proper

• Common

Excellent

Now we are going to practice just a few pronouns.

Multiple Choice

Which word in the sentence is a pronoun?

Dave has us working too hard!

• Dave

• us

• has

• hard

Multiple Choice

Which word in the sentence is a pronoun?

I don't know what the teacher is saying.

• I

• know

• what

• teacher

Multiple Choice

Which word in the sentence is a pronoun?

Are you going to eat that?

• Are

• you

• going

• eat

Multiple Choice

Which word in the sentence is a pronoun?

Where did mom set it?

• Where

• did

• set

• it

Multiple Choice

Which word in the sentence is a pronoun?

We need to go to the grocery store.

• We

• need

• grocery

• store

Multiple Choice

Which word in the sentence is a pronoun?

That is my favorite song.

• my

• is

• favorite

• song