Common, Proper, and Collective Nouns

What is a noun?

a person, place, thing, or idea!

Common Nouns

• A common noun is a general things, person, or place
• example: teacher, city, dog, school, pencil
• They are not capitalized unless they are at the beginning of a sentence.

Proper Nouns

• A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing
• NAMES of particular nouns
• These words are always capitalized!
• Capitalize the first word and each important word of a proper noun.

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Proper Nouns

• NAMES of people
• Ex: Harry Potter
• NAMES of cities and countries
• Ex: United States of America
• TITLES of books, articles, songs, movies, and TV shows
• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
• Days of the week and months of the year
• Abbreviated proper nouns like in addresses, titles, and initials in names, and names of days and months.
• The envelope went to Mr. L. Cho, 11 E. 3^rd St., Rochester, MN 55901

Collective Nouns

• A collective noun names a group of people, animals, or things.
• Examples: class (group of students); team (a group of players); flock (a group of birds); family (a group of related people)

Common, Proper, and Collective Nouns�RWN page 87, 94, 104

Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns

Plural Nouns

• Plural nouns name more than one person animal, place, or thing.
• Add –s to form the plural of most nouns
• Add –es to nouns ending in ch, sh, x, z, s, and ss
• If a noun ends in a vowel and y, add –s
• Ex: monkeys, toys
• If a noun ends in a consonant and y, change y to i and add -es

Plural Nouns

• More rules:
• Some nouns have irregular plural forms. They change spelling.
• Goose 🡪 geese
• Tooth 🡪 teeth
• For most nouns that end in f or fe, change f to v and add –es
• wife 🡪 wives
• Some nouns have the same singular and plural forms
• Ex: salmon, trout, sheep

Regular and Irregular Plural Nouns�RWN page 112, 119, 165, 166

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Possesive Nouns

Let’s learn about how to show possession!

Possessive Nouns

• A possessive noun shows ownership
• A singular possessive noun shows that one person, animal, place, or thing has or owns something
• Add an apostrophe (‘) and -s
• A plural possessive noun shows that more than one person, animal, place, or thing has or owns something
• Plural noun (-s) and add an apostrophe (‘)
• Irregular plural noun, add an apostrophe (‘) and –s

Possessive Nouns�RWN page 123, 130, 167

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Action and Linking Verbs

Let’s learn about the different kinds of verbs

Action and Linking Verbs

• A complete sentence has a subject and a predicate. The main word in the predicate is a verb.

Action and Linking Verbs

• An action verb tells what the subject does
• Describes an ACTION
• EX: The little boy cried often.
• Action verbs show actions that are physical (hike, build) or mental (remember, approve)

Action and Linking Verbs

• A linking verb links, or joins, the subject to a word or words in the predicate. It tells what the subject is or is like.
• EX: He seemed very quiet. He was a good sport.
• Linking verb the subject of the sentence to information about that subject.
• Linking verbs DO NOT describe action.

Action and Linking Verbs

• Common linking verbs are forms of the word be (am, is, are, was, were)
• These verbs can be linking verbs: become, seem, appear, feel, taste, smell, and look
• However, some of them can also be used as action verbs.
• EX: A boy appeared suddenly. He looked at the food.

Action and Linking Verbs�RWN page 134, 141, 169