Www.houstonisd.org



A noun is a person, place, thing or idea. Person = girl, Sarah, man, Dr. Jones Place = school, Lanier Middle School, Houston, city Thing = book, chair, cat, pencil Idea = freedom, honesty, democracy A noun can be singular (one) or plural (more than one). A noun can be concrete (you can touch it or see it—people, places, things) or abstract (you can’t touch it—ideas). A noun can be collective (names a group of things—herd, flock). * Many times, “a”, “an”, and “the” precede a nounNouns Common Nouns— A general name for something, starts with a lower case letter Proper Nouns— Unique, specific name, only one of this thing, starts with a capital letter. Common (general) Proper (special) girl Lucy city St. Louis river Rio Grande Spelling plural nouns:--add ‘s’ or ‘es’cat, cats, dress, dresses, boy, boys--change ‘y’ to ‘I’ and add ‘es’baby, babies, lady, ladies--change ‘f’ to ‘v’ and add ‘es’elf, elves, loaf, loaves--ends in ‘ch’, ‘sh’, ‘s’, ‘x’, ‘z’, add ‘es’box, boxes, buses, prize, prizes, church, churches--most nouns that end in ‘o’ add ‘s’piano, pianos, video, videos--nouns that end in a consonant and ‘o’ add ‘es’hero, heroes, potato, potatoes--some change internal spellingtooth, teeth, woman, women, child, children ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download