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Grammar Lessons

Grammar Lessons. Grammar Lesson: Nouns. A noun names a person, animal, place, thing, or idea. All sentences contain at least one noun. Grammar Lesson-Nouns, continued.

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Grammar Lessons

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  1. Grammar Lessons

  2. Grammar Lesson: Nouns • A noun names a person, animal, place, thing, or idea. All sentences contain at least one noun.

  3. Grammar Lesson-Nouns, continued • A noun can be singular (one individual thing), plural (more than one thing), or collective (a group of things acting as a single unit).

  4. Common and Proper Nouns Common nouns name any person, place, thing, or idea. Proper nouns name a particular person, place, thing, or idea. Always capitalize proper nouns. Capitalize common nouns only when they begin a sentence.

  5. Common and Proper Nouns

  6. Turn to page 28 in your text. • Do part 1 • Word Analysis: Latin Root –cred- • Fluency: Words in Context • (a)Re-write the paragraph and fill in the blanks with the vocabulary word • (b)For each numbered item, use both words correctly in a single sentence. • Do NOT do the spelling strategy • Common and Proper Nouns • Practice: Write each of the sentences, underline the nouns. Then, write C or P above each noun to tell whether it is common or proper. • Writing Application: Rewrite the following items, replacing bracketed proper nouns with common nouns and common nouns with proper nouns.

  7. Plural and Possessive Nouns • Plural and Possessive nouns are sometimes confused. • A plural noun indicates more than one person, place, thing, or idea. Most plural nouns end with the letter –s. • “On Saturday, barbers sat their customers in the shade on the porch….”

  8. Plural Nouns • A plural noun indicates more than one person, place, thing, or idea. Most plural nouns end with the letter –s. • “On Saturday, barbers sat their customers in the shade on the porch….”

  9. Possessive Nouns • A possessive noun shows ownership, belonging, or some other close relationship. A possessive noun can be singular, ending in –’s, or plural, usually ending in –s’. • Singular Possessive: “If I was of in the Store’s favor, the eagle-eyed women would…” • Plural Possessive: “[S]he…supplied the workers’ needs for a few years.”

  10. Practice • On your own, • Fluency: Sentence Completion (copy each sentence and fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word) • Grammar Lesson: Complete 1-5. Correct errors of plural and possessive nouns as needed. (copy each sentence)

  11. Pronouns and Antecedents

  12. General and Specific Nouns

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