Capitalization Lesson 4

Capitalization

Lesson 4: Proper Nouns and Adjectives

Multiple Select

Which words below are common nouns?

• boy

• Bob

• city

• Tampa

• summer

Multiple Select

Which words below are proper nouns?

• cat

• Mr. Fluffy

• website

• Clever

• March

Multiple Choice

A part of speech that describes a person place or thing is called

• verb

• noun

• adjective

Multiple Select

Choose the adjective(s) from the sentence: One advantage of robots is that they never become tired.

• One

• advantage

• robots

• never

• tired

Multiple Select

Choose the adjective(s) from the sentence: In Venice, Italy, two human-sized robots dressed in medieval clothing strike the clock tower bell every hour.

• Italy

• human-sized

• robots

• medieval

• clothing

Proper adjectives are formed from proper nouns. They usually identify people, places, languages, or groups, and they are ALWAYS capitalized.

• Ex. On my vacation in Italy, I ate only Italian food.

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Have you ever eaten Polish food? Type the proper adjective.

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What is the proper noun from which Alaskan was formed? Type you answer.

Multiple Choice

Proper adjectives are usually formed using the SUFFIXES...

(Think about people that are from America, China, or Sweden.)

• full, less and tion

• cule, ulent, ous

• ar, er and arian

• an, ish and ese

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Fix the errors in capitalization by writing the correct word. If a sentence contains no errors, write correct.

The aztec people composed music and poetry.

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Fix the errors in capitalization by writing the correct word. If a sentence contains no errors, write correct.

My favorite indian dish is butter chicken.

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Fix the errors in capitalization by writing the correct word. If a sentence contains no errors, write correct.

Most of my family lives in new England.

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Fix the errors in capitalization by writing the correct word. If a sentence contains no errors, write correct.

Mexico is a latin American country rich in art and tradition

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Fix the errors in capitalization by writing the correct word. If a sentence contains no errors, write correct.

I read a magazine called popular Mechanics.

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Fix the errors in capitalization by writing the correct word. If a sentence contains no errors, write correct.

We started our road trip by driving through northern Florida.

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Fix the errors in capitalization by writing the correct word. If a sentence contains no errors, write correct.

It took only 16 hours to finally reach the midwest.