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Nouns

Nouns. By Ellyn Ball and Lilly Jenkins. Nouns. Who can recall what a noun is?. Nouns. Nouns are naming words. They help people name what they are thinking or talking about. In English, most nouns fall into four main groups. A noun is a person, place thing or idea. Types of nouns.

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Nouns

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  1. Nouns By Ellyn Ball and Lilly Jenkins

  2. Nouns • Who can recall what a noun is?

  3. Nouns • Nouns are naming words. They help people name what they are thinking or talking about. In English, mostnounsfall into four main groups. • A noun is a person, place thing or idea.

  4. Types of nouns

  5. Quick Check • How many types of nouns? • 4 • What are they? • people, places, things and ideas

  6. Let’s Do • Explain which category each noun falls under 1. puppy 6. loyalty 2. leash 7. yard 3. trainer 8. doghouse 4. tail 9. judge 5. family 10. show

  7. Collective nouns • A few nouns name groups of people or things. A pack, for example is “a group of dogs that travel together.” These nouns are called collective nouns. • Example: judge jury court

  8. Let’s Do • Each of the numbered groups of words below contains one collective noun. Volunteers will be needed to choose the correct one. 1. collar club fur • team dish claw • ball litter toys • snout group paw • ribbon brush class

  9. Compound nouns • Sometime words are used together to form a new word with a different meaning. • For example: the two separate words dog and house, when they are used together create “doghouse” meaning “a house for a dog. “Together the words take on a special meaning. A noun such as doghouse is said to be a compound noun • A compound noun is a noun made up of two or more words

  10. Let’s Do • Each group will take one word and look up the correct spelling of each compound noun below and share with the class. • greyhound grey hound grey-hound • foxterrier fox-terrier fox terrier • watch-dog watch dog watchdog • blood hound bloodhound blood-hound • dog-eared dog eared dogeared

  11. Common and Proper nouns • A common nounnames any one of a class of people, places, or things. Common nouns are never capitalized unless they begin a sentence or a title • A proper nounnames a specific person, place, or thing. A proper nounis always capitalized • All nouns-even if they are collective or compound-can be classified as either common or proper nouns

  12. Quick Check • What types of nouns are there? • Compound, collective, common and proper

  13. You Do • On the left side of your interactive notebook, list one of each kind of noun learned today (do not use any examples given today). Make sure to illustrate and color code. • Examples of common and proper nouns

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