Chapter 2 Kinds of Nouns

1. Chapter 2Kinds of Nouns Mr. Bush

2. Kinds of Nouns • A _________ is a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea. • You should know this already… • if you don’t you are behind… • see me to catch up.

3. Kinds of Nouns • _________ Noun- a general name for a person, place, thing, or idea. • _________ nouns are not usually capitalized unless they are at the beginning of the sentence. • Ex. leader, forest, mountain, car, school

4. Kinds of Nouns • _________ noun- is the name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea. • _________ nouns are always capitalized. • Ex. Mr. Bush, Chevrolet, Mercer County Junior High

5. Kinds of Nouns • _________ Nouns- names a thing that can be seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted. • Ex. rainbow, thunder, sapling, feather, and blueberry • On the path we spotted a large, slithery snake.

6. Kinds of Nouns • _________ Nouns- names an idea, feeling, quality, or characteristic. • Ex. happiness, beauty, freedom, humor, and greed. • Abstract nouns can change from person to person. • My happiness is different from your happiness. • We felt tremendous relief after the snake passed us.

7. Kinds of Nouns • Every noun is either _________ or proper and either concrete or _________ . • Ex. desert is common and concrete; Mohave Desert is proper and _________ . Nature is _________ and abstract.

8. Kinds of Nouns • _________ Nouns- a word that names a group of people or things. • Ex. class, crowd, family, staff, trio, and team. • Our family gathered around the campfire for breakfast. • Some _________ nouns name specific groups of animals. • Ex. School, herd, pack, and colony. • At night, a pack of wolves howled at the moon.

9. 1-5’sIdentify each noun as common or proper. • Among the largest living things on our planet are sequoias. • They are named for Sequoya, a Cherokee scholar and leader. • The most impressive example is the General Sherman Tree. • It bears the name of a Northern commander of the Civil War. • This sequoia weighs 12 million pounds and soars 275 feet, a symbol of strength and endurance.

10. Kinds of Nouns • _________ Noun- names one person, place, thing, or idea. • Ex. One tourist noticed a statue.

11. Kinds of Nouns • _________ Noun- names more than one person, place, thing, or idea • Ex. Many tourists looked at statues.

12. 1-5’sWrite the plural forms of the nouns in parentheses • When the Statue of Liberty was almost a century old, (engineer) began to worry about her. • The copper (covering) had worn down, and (piece) of the torch were falling. • Photos showed that the head was 24 (inch) out of line. • This caused one of the (ray) in the crown to rub against the copper cover of the right arm. • Money for repairs came from (corporation), (individual), and (schoolchild).

13. Kinds of Nouns • _________ Noun- form of a noun shows ownership or relationship. • Ex. I held Corey’s camera as she tied her shoe. • Rick’s parents met us at the train station.

14. Kinds of Nouns • Spelling Machine

15. 1-5’sWrite the possessive form of each noun in parentheses • In (Missouri) southwestern corner stands a modest frame home. • The (farmhouse) appearance is like that of many others. • Visitors may not recognize one of our (country) monuments. • Yet, within its walls lived one of (history) finest agricultural scientists, George Washington Carver. • Here (Carver) own interest in plants and agriculture began.

16. Kinds of Nouns • _________ Noun- made of two or more words used together as a single noun. • The parts of a _________ noun may be written as • A single word: toothbrush, watermelon • Two or more separate words: sleeping bag, dining room • A hyphenated word: runner-up, great-aunt

17. Kinds of Nouns

18. 1-5’sWrite each compound noun and determine if is singular or plural • The plains produce foodstuffs such as corn, wheat and rye. • The cornstalks stand tall in South Dakota, a state that loves corn. • The Corn Palace is a famous building in Mitchell, a prairie town that welcomes cornhuskers. • The state produces other products: livestock are fattened in feedlots in eastern South Dakota. • Sportswriters cover the local high school’s teams, which are named the Kernals.

19. Nouns and Their Jobs • Nouns as _________ - tells whom or what a sentence is about. • Nouns are often _________ • Ex. Independence Hall in Philadelphia is one of the nations’ most popular landmarks. • Ex. Here the Declaration of Independence was approved by the 13 colonies on July 4, 1776.

20. Nouns and Their Jobs • Nouns as _________ - a word that completes the meaning of a verb. • Three kinds of complements are _________ nouns, _________ objects and _________ objects.

21. Nouns and Their Jobs • Nouns as Complements

22. Nouns and Their Jobs • Nouns as Objects of the _________ - the noun or pronoun that follows a _________ . • Ex. Paul Revere left on his ride. • ‘on’ is the preposition • ‘on his ride’ is the prepositional phrase • ‘ride’ is the object of the preposition

23. 1-5’sIdentify each underlined nouns as a subject, a complement, or an object of a preposition • The Vietnam War brought our country much sorrow. • More than 58,000 Americans died or remained missing in action. • Veterans of the war wished to honor those who died. • A committee set up a contest to choose someone to design the memorial. • Maya Lin, a young architect, visited Washington, D.C., to view the memorial site.