LANGUAGENouns

Proper Nouns

Singular and Plural Nouns

NOUNS

Look around you.

What do you see?

A book? A chair?

Everything you see is a noun.

A noun names a person, place or thing.

Look for the nouns in the following sentences.

A boy from Florida brought his rabbit to

school in a cage.

The rabbit got out of the cage.

The boy ran after his rabbit.

It hopped down the hall and into the cafeteria.

It ate the salad.

All of the blue words are nouns.

Nouns name

people, places

and things.

Can you find the nouns in the following

sentences?

STOP1. My sister likes frogs.

2. The sandwich is on the table.

3. The lamp burned my finger.

4. The children played jump

rope on the playground.

5. Sarah saw paintings and art

at the museum.

PROPER NOUNS

Daytona Beach, Florida

George Washington

Fido

These nouns name a certain place, a certain person, or a

certain thing.

We call nouns that name specific people, places,

or things:

PROPER NOUNS.

All Proper Nouns must start with a capital

letter.Your name starts with a

capital letter.Your name is a Proper Noun.

STOP

Can you fix the proper nouns.

Remember to capitalize it!

STOP

president smith will

leave washington, d.c. in

january.

A noun can name one thing, or it can name more than one thing. Another name for just one of something is

singular.

All of these are

singular nouns.

car pencil pig

book cup computer

Another name for more than one thing is

plural.

Plural nouns name more than one person, place,

or thing.

All of these are

plural nouns.

cars pencils pigs

books cups computers

All you do to make

most nouns plural is

add the letter “s” to

the end of the word.

But some nouns already end in s, or ss. They

need an “es” at the end to make them plural.

bus = buses

dress = dresses

STOP Make these words plural.

recess

pass

mess

For nouns that end in

ch, sh, or x,

you also have to add

“es” to make them plural.

lunch = lunches

STOP Make these nouns plural.

wish

fox

bunch

There are some nouns that you don’t use “s” or “es”, instead you spell the word a new

way, like this:

foot = feet

STOP Make these nouns plural.

tooth

child

woman

man

Remember: Nouns

name people, places

and things.