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Nouns and Verbs

Nouns and Verbs. What is a noun?. student. boy. Miley Cyrus. teacher. Bob Atteberry. girl. doctor. park. Humble Skate Park. school. mall. classroom. pencil. lamp. desk. swimsuit. The Pigman. The Pledge of Allegiance. person : place : thing :. What is a plural noun?.

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Nouns and Verbs

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  1. Nouns and Verbs

  2. What is a noun? student boy Miley Cyrus teacher Bob Atteberry girl doctor park Humble Skate Park school mall classroom pencil lamp desk swimsuit The Pigman The Pledge of Allegiance person: place: thing:

  3. What is a plural noun? A noun names more than one. They are usually formed by adding or to the singular noun. Singular: Plural: plural -S -ES truth bench student hotel truths students benches hotels

  4. What is different about the circled nouns? student boy Miley Cyrus teacher Bob Atteberry girl doctor They're proper nouns! park Humble Skate Park school mall classroom pencil lamp desk swimsuit The Outsiders The Pledge of Allegiance person: place: thing:

  5. Proper Nouns proper person thing place A ___________ noun names a specific _________, ___________, or __________. Label these nouns as either common or proper. Thomas Alvarez country age man Disney World building

  6. Identify the common and proper nouns in the following sentences, and label them on your notes. Kingwood Middle School is my favorite place to see my friends. Bella, the girl in Twilight, has the coolest hair. George offered Godzilla a ten-dollar loan to buy a second pizza. A boy and his mother dined at a pizza restaurant. Reading has become my favorite hobby thanks to RELA.

  7. What is a verb? I can___________________. run jump listen laugh dance sing • An ACTION VERB shows action. It shows what a noun is doing. • Fill in the following sentence with an action verb: • I is the noun, and the verbs are showing what the I is doing.

  8. What is a LINKING verb? linking noun pronoun • A verb connects the subject, which is always a or , to another word that identifies or describes the subject. • Linking verbs are most commonly different forms of the verb “to be.” am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been EXAMPLE: Laura is sweet. • In this sentence, the verb isLINKS the subject Laura to the idea that she is sweet.

  9. What is a HELPING verb? Helping Verbs Main Verb • A HELPING VERB always accompanies another type of verb and is never found by itself but usually is paired with a linking or action verb. (Hence the word HELP) • The role of a helping verb is to give the main verb special meaning or a time frame (tense). • The most common helping verbs are can, could, do, did, has, had, have, may, might, must, shall, should, will and would. . EXAMPLE: Aardvark, my neighbor, has been playing his music too loudly.

  10. Identify all of the verbs in following sentences, and write them on your notes. He decides to stick to soccer. Sara could take more units, or she could get a part-time job to help pay for educational expenses. The public listens with great interest. Fall is my favorite season because of the cool weather. My sister-in-law writes novels and short stories, and she has become famous because of them.

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