Unit 3-Nouns: Review Extravaganza Bonanza! ANSWER KEY 
Provide three examples for each category listed below:
People
Places
Things
Ideas
Matt
mailman
Mr. Rogers
Cincinnati
library
Skyline
Slinky
tea cup
headband
Christianity
generosity
happiness
Using complete sentences, provide a definition for each term listed below:
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Concrete Noun: a noun that can be seen, smelled, head, tasted, or touched.
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Abstract Noun: a noun that names an idea, a quality or a feeling.
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Common Noun: a noun that refers to any person, place, thing or idea. They are only capitalized
if they appear at the beginning of a sentence.
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Proper Noun: a noun that identifies a specific person, place, thing or idea. They are always
capitalized.
Provide three examples for each category listed below:
Concrete
Abstract
Common
Proper
Uncle Joe
village
vegetables
belief
beauty
disappointment
city
ocean
people
Ms. Krehbiel
Ohio
St. Antoninus
Put a box around each of the concrete nouns. Put a circle around each of the abstract nouns.
1. Throughout time the sky has fascinated people.
2. The earliest fliers imitated birds.
3. They wore artificial wings and jumped from high towers.
4. They flapped their outspread arms and fell to the ground.
5. In 1903 two young Americans invented the first airplane.
Using complete sentences, provide a definition for each term listed below:
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Collective Noun: a noun that refers to a group of people, animals or things.
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Compound Noun: a noun this made up of two or more words used as a single noun.
Provide three examples for each category listed below:
Collective Nouns
Compound Nouns
Audience
Club
Class
Newspaper
Truck driver
Son-in-law
Put a box around each of the collective nouns. Put a circle around each of the compound nouns.
1. Lynn will visit her grandparents tomorrow.
2. She will travel to Atlanta with her family.
3. Lynn has told everyone in her class about her trip.
4. Charles Harris is Lynn’s grandfather.
5. For many years Mr. Harris worked for the railroad.
Using complete sentences, provide a definition for each term listed below:
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Singular Noun: a noun that names one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Plural Noun: a noun that names two or more people, places, things, or ideas.
Write the plural form of each noun listed below:
Singular Form
Plural Form
Roof
Roof or rooves
Solo
Solos
Monkey
Monkeys
Goose
Geese
Beach
Beaches
Using complete sentences, provide a definition for each term listed below:
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Possessive Noun: a noun that expresses ownership or shows a relationship.
Turn each group of words, listed below, to include a possessive form:
Group of Words
Possessive Form
Ms. Ross has an office
Ms. Ross’s office
The countess has jewels
The countess’s jewels
Phone of Chris
Chris’s phone
The words of Romeo
Romeo’s words
Decision of the jury
The jury’s decision
Check if each item listed below is correct or incorrect. Rewrite each incorrect item:
Item
Correct
A woman’s footprint
Incorrect
X
One stores customer
One store’s customer
Douglas’ greatest wish
Douglas’s greatest wish
My sister-in-law’s baby
X
The childrens’ shouts
The children’s shouts
Using complete sentences, provide a definition for each term below:
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Appositive: a word or phrase that follows another word, almost always a noun, to explain or
identify it.
When do you use commas to set off an appositive from the rest of a sentence?
Use a comma to set off an appositive from the rest of the sentence when removing the appositive
from the sentence does not change its meaning (the essential information in the sentence).
When do you not use commas to set off an appositive from the rest of a sentence?
Do not use a comma to set off an appositive from the rest of the sentence, when removing the
appositive would change the meaning (or the essential information) of the sentence.
Combine each pair of sentences by using an appositive. Write the new sentence. Add commas if needed.
1. Most of the people in Panama speak Spanish. Spanish is the official language.
Spanish, the official language of Panama, is spoken by most of the people in Panama.
2. The most important city in Panama is Panama City. Panama City is the capital.
Panama City, the most important city in Panama, is the capital.
3. The crops grow well there. The crops are rice and coconuts.
The crops rice and coconuts grow well there.
4. Panama lies between two bodies of water. The bodies of water are the Pacific Ocean and the
Caribbean Sea.
Panama lies between two bodies of water, The Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.