There are many things in our language that come easy to us because we can hear what is

right and wrong.

• They don’t want none of the ice cream.

• The elephant stepped on a egg.

• We sits in our desks.

But other things in our language are hard to hear.

• Their going to the movie tonight.• I had the most craziest week in the world.• Someone put their books on my desk.• I have drank all the milk.• My sister and me are the same height as him.• Is Susie there? This is her.

Nouns

• A noun is a name word. (VIE p. 247)–Several types

• Common – general - building• Proper – specific – Mall of America• Collective – unit – class (as a singular

noun it still represents many as one)• Concrete – touchable – desk• Abstract – quality/condition - respect

How is the word used?

• Words that look like nouns may be actually used in a different way.– As verbs (action)

• Please don’t fly that plane around the house.

– As adjectives (description)• The garden fence needed repair.

• Other words may appear to be nouns but are really pronouns (take the place of a noun)– We gave it to everyone.

Plural Noun Rules (p.257-260)

1. book(s)

2. wish(es)

3a. fly - flies

3b. attorney(s)

6. mouse-mice

7. ox(en)

8. moose-moose

9. brother-in-law brothers-in-law

10a. i(’s)

10b. 1980(s)

4a. roofs

4b. scarf- scarves

5a. radio(s)

5b. hero(es)

5c. piano(s)

The Many Jobs of a Noun

• A noun can play many different roles in a sentence = CASE

– Nominative = the noun being talked about

– Possessive = a noun showing ownership

– Objective = noun as an object of the verb

Nominative Case = the CEO of Nouns

Horace, your sister, Macy, became the captain of the soccer team yesterday.

Sister = subject = who/what is?

Macy = appositive = renames subject (surrounded by commas)

Captain = subjective complement = also renames subject but comes after verb

Horace = direct address = person being spoken to (set off from the sentence by commas)

Possessive Case = the Owner of Nouns

The apostrophe identifies ownership – (’)1. One owner (singular possessive) = ’s

fox’s / man’s2. More than one owner (plural possessive)

a) If noun ends in s – add only ’ – foxes’b) If noun does not end in s – add ’s – men’s

3. Proper names ending in s – add ’s – Chris’s

4. Compound nouns – add ’s to the end of word – sister-in-law’s

Objective Case = the Consumer of Nouns

After lunch Martin offered Morton, his friend, a chocolate chip cookie.

Cookie = direct object (D.O.) – what/whom is

being offeredMorton = indirect object (I.O.) – to whom or what

the cookie is being offeredLunch = object of the preposition (o.o.p.) – the

noun that follows a prepositionFriend = appositive – renames a noun (in this

sentence it renames the I.O.)

CEO-OWNER-CONSUMER REVIEW

1. Billy’s bike broke at the bottom of the big berm.

2. Annie, my favorite aunt, arrived after Arnie, an absurd alligator.

3. Sandra sent her sister a slippery slimy snake.

4. Iris is an intelligent inventor in Istanbul.

5. Rafael, read your rowdy rat The Runaway Racehorse by Ron Roy.

6. Please, Patricia, pay Polly, Poland’s princess, pennies for the prince’s pumpkins.