Nouns Study Guide - Loudoun County Public Schools
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This guide should be used along with students’ word study notebook, which has examples practiced in class.
Noun – a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
EXAMPLES: person: woman place: city
thing: toy idea: thought
Common Nouns and Proper Nouns
• A common noun names any person, place, thing, or idea.
• It begins with a lowercase letter.
EXAMPLES: scientist street holiday
• A proper noun names a particular person, place, thing, or idea. Each important word of a proper noun begins with a capital letter.
EXAMPLES: Grace Hopper, Main Street, Labor Day, Fourth of July
Singular and Plural Nouns
• A singular noun names one person, place, thing, or idea.
• A plural noun names more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
• Add s to most nouns to make them plural.
EXAMPLE: dog – dogs
• If a noun ends in a vowel and y, add s to make it plural.
EXAMPLE: bay - bays
• If a noun ends in a consonant and y, change the y to i and add es.
EXAMPLE: party - parties
• Add es to nouns ending in s, z, x, ch, or sh to make them plural.
EXAMPLES: dress – dresses box – boxes
• If a noun ends with an f, change the f to v and add es.
EXAMPLE: calf – calves wolf-wolves
See the Word Study notebook for additional notes and practice.
Irregular Plural Nouns
• Some nouns change spelling in the plural form.
• Other nouns have the same singular and plural form.
EXAMPLES:
Change Spelling Same Singular and Plural
man – men salmon
child – children elk
foot – feet deer
goose – geese trout
woman – women sheep
ox-oxen fish
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