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Possessive Nouns
#1 form a singular possessive noun: the hat of the woman woman's hat
#2 names a specific person, place, thing, or idea and is always capitalized proper noun
#3 names a general person, place, thing, or idea common noun
#4 names one person, place, thing, or idea singular noun
#5 names more than one person, place, thing, or idea proper noun
Common Nouns
#1 replace the proper noun of Halloween with a common noun holiday
#2 replace the proper noun of Mrs. Roeglin with a common noun teacher
#3 Identify the common noun(s) in the sentence. The young scientist was born in Maryland scientist
#4 Identify the common noun(s) in the sentence. This man had an unusually good memory. man and memory
#5 Identify the common noun(s) in the sentence. The astronomer spent many nights watching the stars and planets astronomer, nights, stars, and planets
Proper Nouns
#1 replace the common noun city with a proper noun various answers
#2 replace the common noun car with a proper noun various answers
#3 Identify the proper nouns in the sentence. Many friends helped Benjamin Banneker Benjamin Banneker
#4 Identify the proper noun(s) in the sentence. Now, scientists are exploring Mars, Jupiter, and other planets Mars and Jupiter
#5 Identify the proper nouns in the sentence. Banneker helped design Washtington, D.C. Banneker and Washington, D.C.
Singular and Plural Nouns
#1 change the singular noun city to a plural noun cities
#2 change the singular noun bench to a plural noun benches
#3 change the singular noun flashlight to a plural noun flashlights
#4 change the singular noun leaf to a plural noun leaves
#5 change the singular noun radio a plural noun radios
Rules
#1 To make most noun plurals you _______________ add -s
#2 If a noun ends in a vowel and an o, how do you make it plural? add -s
#3 If a noun ends in a vowel and a y, how do you make it plural? add a -s
#4 If a noun ends in a sh, ch, s, z, and x, how do you make it plural? add -es
#5 If a noun ends in a consonant and y, how do you make it plural? change the y to an i and add -es
Final Question
List all the nouns used in the sentence. A tornado usually lasts only minutes, or at the most a few hours. tornado, minutes, and hours