NOUNS: Common, Proper, Regular and Irregular Plurals

NOUNS: Common, Proper, Regular and Irregular Plurals

​Common Noun

• ​a common noun names ANY person, place, or thing.

  • ​Ex: The shiny coins jingled in his pocket.

• ​Common nouns are not capitalized unless they are at the beginning of a sentence.

​Proper Noun

• ​A Proper Noun names a particular person, place, or thing.

• ​When a proper noun is more than one word, capitalize only the important word or words.

  • ​Ex: Her cousin lives in South America.

  • ​Ex: Aunt Jean visited the Statue of Liberty.

• ​Some proper nouns, including titles for people, have short forms called abbreviations that begin with capital letters and end with periods.

  • ​Ex: Gen. Jones visited the middle school. I met Edward Wu, Jr.

Multiple Choice

What is the proper noun?

Dr. Tee Van chuckled at the bird.

• Dr. Tee Van

• chuckled

• at

• bird

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What is the proper noun in this sentence?

My uncle put his money in the National State Bank.

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What is the COMMON noun in this sentence?

Aunt Louise worked in her garden.

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What is the PROPER NOUN?

Aunt Louise worked in her garden.

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Rewrite the proper noun using correct capitalization, punctuation, and abbreviations.

doctor martin luther king, junior

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Rewrite the proper noun using correct capitalization, punctuation, and abbreviations.

general forrester

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Rewrite the proper noun using correct capitalization, punctuation, and abbreviations.

Doctor Bart from Boston

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Rewrite the proper noun using correct capitalization, punctuation, and abbreviations.

reverend smith

​Plural Nouns

• ​Most plural nouns are formed by adding -s.

  • ​swing/swings, animal/animals, boy/boys

​Add -es to nouns ending in ch, sh, x, z, s, and ss.

• ​fox/foxes, bush/bushes, church/churches

• ​If a noun ends in a consonant and y, change the y to i and add -es.

  • ​blueberry/blueberries, pony/ponies, penny/pennies

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  • Some nouns have irregular plural forms. They change spelling.

  • ​ex: man/men, tooth/teeth, child/children, foot/feet

​Plural Nouns Cont...

• ​For most nouns that end in f or fe, change f to v and add -es.

  • ​half/halves, wolf/wolves, thief/thieves, shelf/shelves

• ​Some nouns have the same singular and plural forms.

  • ​salmon, trout, sheep, moose, deer

• ​For compound nouns, make only the important word plural.

  • ​mothers-in-law, commanders-in-chief

• ​When a noun ends in a vowel and o, ad -s.

  • ​video/videos, radio/radios

• ​Check a dictionary for plurals of nouns ending in a consonant and o:

  • ​photo/photos, potato/potatoes, tomato/tomatoes

Fill in the Blank

They tuned their ______________ (radio) to the Space ranger show.

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How many _________(mystery) does our universe hold?

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My brother likes to read about space _________(hero).

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Casey had model rockets on all of his ________(shelf).