Common, Proper, Singular, and Plural Nouns

What is a noun?

• person, place, thing, or an idea

• person, place

• Mary, School, dog

• something that shows action

A _________________ is a

generic person, place, or thing.

• Proper Noun

• Common Noun

• Verb

A _____________

specific person, place, or thing.

• verb

• common noun

• proper noun

• noun

Common nouns start with a__________ unless they are at the beginning of a sentence

• capital letter

• lowercase letter

What kind of nouns always start with an uppercase letter.

• Proper nouns

• Common nouns

Which one is a common noun?

• Mrs. Brown

• Mary

• teacher

• Ms. Terry

Choose the sentence that has all the proper capitalized correctly.

• The empire state building is really tall.

• Our dog, fred, is the silliest dog around!

• My favorite month of the year is May.

• Grandma Diane wants to have us over on tuesday.

Which of these nouns is Proper?

• boxes

• Mary

• cupcake

• children

What is the plural form of baby?

• babies

• babys

• babyies

• babyes

Check the one nouns that you would add an -s to, to make the noun plural.

• girl

• bus

• fish

• box