Proper Nouns, Common Nouns, and Pronouns…



Name: _____________________________

Nouns

Directions: determine whether each noun is common or proper; and singular, plural or possessive; and concrete or abstract. Write your answers on the appropriate lines.

1. cars ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

2. holiday ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

3. Las Vegas ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

4. Byron’s ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

5. books ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

6. babies’ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

7. hope ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

8. pepperoni pizza ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

9. Chicago River ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

10. doctors ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

11. safety ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

12. encyclopedia ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

13. Ford Taurus ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

14. Gina Davis’s ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

15. Holes ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

16. mice ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

17. kindness ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

18. Big Macs ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

19. Christmas ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

20. danger ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

21. Illinois ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

22. Bugs Bunny ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

23. colleges’ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

24. wind ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

25. West ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

26. sadness ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

27. germs ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

28. chess ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

29. Iceland ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

30. loneliness’s ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

31. owls’ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

32. children ___________________ ___________________ ___________________

common or proper? singular, plural, or possessive? concrete or abstract?

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Proper Nouns, Common Nouns, and Pronouns…

With Ninjas!

Directions:

1. Underline the common nouns.

2. Double underline the proper nouns.

3. Circle the pronouns.

1. One day the Silent Lotus ninja clan attacked Mr. Morton in his classroom.

2. Mr. Morton knew they were coming, so he hid under his desk.

3. As the ninjas looked in the coat room, Mr. Morton sobbed quietly.

4. Mr. Morton needed courage and bravery but all he had was cowardice.

5. Having read the book, Lord of the Flies, Mr. Morton knew how to make a spear.

6. Mr. Morton waited for the bell to ring.

7. Then, he chewed a point onto a yard stick.

8. Mr. Morton thought about how Chicago is a city in the state of Illinois.

9. After that, he rolled out from his desk and threw his spear at a ninja.

10. The ninja caught the yard stick and broke it.

11. Mr. Morton knew he was in trouble.

12. Mr. Morton also knew that “trouble” is a thing.

13. Mr. Morton ran to the door and pressed the button.

14. The ninja threw darts at him but they missed.

15. Ms. Moore in the office said, “Office…”

16. Mr. Morton said, “There’s a fight. Send security.”

17. The ninjas came running at Mr. Morton with their swords flying.

18. Ms. Terry kicked open the door and the ninjas put their swords behind their backs.

19. Ms. Terry said, “Hey, quit playing around, you!”

20. The ninjas walked on the red line out of the public school.

Name: ____________________________

Adverbs and Adjectives Worksheet

Directions: Circle the correct form to complete the sentence.

1. The student wanted to finish her homework quick / quickly .

2. Todd walked very sneaky / sneakily down the hallway.

3. The student was in such a hurry that she did bad / badly on the assignment.

4. The girl sang beautiful / beautifully .

5. The classroom was very noisy / noisily .

6. Antonio wound up and threw the football hard / hardly .

7. Whoever made the cake did a wonderful / wonderfully job.

8. She was running down the hallway crazy / crazily .

9. She answered the question wrong / wrongly .

10. The flowers smelled good / well .

Underline the adjectives and circle the adverbs. There is at least one of each in every sentence.

11. I have six dollars but, unfortunately, I need ten dollars to get into that awesome movie.

12. He quickly threw on his green pants and orange shirt.

13. I am very mad, but I am not mad at you.

14. The black cat stealthily walked on the old windowsill.

15. We happily ate the fat, juicy steaks.

16. She clumsily spilled hot coffee on her pink shirt.

17. The car is not red.

18. The cat is really old.

19. The student sloppily wrote his answers on the crumpled homework sheet.

20. The teacher angrily graded the messy homework assignment.

21-25. Write five adjectives and show how they can be turned into adverbs.

PARTS OF SPEECH AND SENTENCE TYPES

MULTIPLE CHOICE: select the correct answer.

1. Which one is a declarative sentence?

a) Where are you going after school? b) Use a number two pencil.

c) I love taking tests! d) This is easy.

2. Which one is an exclamatory sentence?

a) Put your name on your test. b) When are we going to get another English lesson?

c) I love Chris Brown! d) The pen is blue.

3. Which one is an interrogative sentence?

a) Where is the restroom? b) This is the restroom.

c) Let me go. d) I need to use the restroom!

4. Which one is an imperative sentence?

a) Tell him that you like him. b) I have to clean my room.

c) Where were you last night? d) We won the game!

5. What is the difference between a declarative and imperative sentence?

a) A declarative sentence has no subject. b) An imperative sentence has no predicate.

c) An imperative sentence has no subject. d) A declarative sentence has no predicate.

6. Which one of the following words is a concrete noun?

a) run b) car

c) speed d) to

7. Which one of the following words is an action verb?

a) jump b) is

c) in d) cat

8. Which one of the following words is a helping verb?

a) hug b) robot

c) have d) her

9. Which of the following words is an adverb?

a) tall b) beautifully

c) quick d) should

10. Which one of the following words is an adjective?

a) noisy b) noisily

c) noise d) been

11. Which one of the following words is a preposition?

a) ouch b) will

c) over d) cat

12. Which one of the following words is an interjection?

a) through b) pencil

c) me d) please

13. Which one of the following words is a pronoun?

a) Torrence b) inside

c) would d) him

14. Which one of the following words is an abstract noun?

a) have been b) Mount Rushmore

c) fat d) beauty

MATCHING: Match the terms with the definitions:

|15. imperative sentence |a. tells us “if” or “when” something happened |

|16. declarative sentence |b. a word that modifies or describes a noun or pronoun |

|17. adverb |c. a sentence that ends with a period and has a clear subject |

|18. adjective |d. a word that tells us the locations of objects |

|19. preposition |e. an idea or quality, a thing that you cannot touch |

|20. interjection |ab. a word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence |

|21. abstract noun |ac. what the sentence is about |

|22. concrete noun |ad. a sentence that expresses emotion and ends with an exclamation point |

|23. pronoun |ae. a word that modifies or describes a verb or an adjective |

|24. helping verb |bc. what happens in the sentence |

|25. action verb |bd. a word that expresses something you can do |

|26. interrogative sentence |be. a word that expresses emotion and is followed by a comma or an exclamation point. |

|27. exclamatory sentence |cd. sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark. |

|28. subject |ce. a person place or thing |

|29. predicate |de. a sentence that gives a command and does not have a clear subject |

IDENTIFY: examine the underlined words and determine what part of speech they are.

The mean teacher quickly gave the students homework.

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30. What part of speech is the word mean acting as in the above sentence?

a) verb b) noun

c) adverb d) adjective

31. What part of speech is the word teacher acting as in the above sentence?

a) preposition b) pronoun

c) noun d) predicate

32. What part of speech is the word quickly acting as in the above sentence?

a) noun b) verb

c) adjective d) adverb

33. What part of speech is the word gave in the above sentence?

a) verb b) pronoun

c) adverb d) preposition

Hey! You should find my cellular phone. It is under the chair.

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34. What part of speech is the word Hey acting as in the above sentence?

a) preposition b) pronoun

c) interjection d) helping verb

35. What part of speech is the word should acting as in the above sentence?

a) action verb b) helping verb

c) pronoun d) preposition

36. What part of speech is the word find acting as in the above sentence?

a) preposition b) pronoun

c) interjection d) helping verb

37. What part of speech is the word under acting as in the above sentence?

a) preposition b) pronoun

c) interjection d) helping verb

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