Nouns, Proper Nouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs

What is a noun?

• Describes words

• Specifies a noun

• Person, place, or thing

• Action words

What is a proper noun?

• Person, place, or thing

• Desctribes words

• Specifies a noun

• Action words

What is an adjective?

• Describes a noun

• Action word

• Describes an adverb

• Person, place, or thing

What is an adverb?

• Only adjectives

• Only verbs

• Only adverbs

• Describes adjectives, adverbs, and verrbs.

Find the proper noun: The Lakers play basketball tonight.

• Tonight

• Basketball

• Lakers

• Play

Find the common noun: Mary went to school today.

• Mary

• Went

• Today

• School

Find the adverb: Timothy ran quickly across the track.

• Timothy

• Quickly

• Across

• Track

Find the adjective: The White House is really big.

• Big

• White House

• Really

• No adjective found

Find the noun: We went to the grocery store with Anna and Brian.

• Grocery store

• Brian

• Anna

• Went

What is the difference between a common and proper noun?

• A proper noun specifies a common noun while a common noun is a person, place or thing

• A common noun specifies a specific thing, while a proper noun describes things.

• A proper noun is a person, place, or thing, while a common noun describes something.

• There is no difference.