Common and Proper Nouns
A noun is a word that names a person, place, or thing.
A common noun names any person, place, or thing.
A proper noun names a particular person, place, or thing. Proper
nouns begin with capital letters.
Common Nouns
The game will be next week.
Proper Nouns Amy is free to play on Saturday.
Common and proper nouns can have appositives. An appositive is a
noun or phrase that tells more about the noun next to it.
My friend Amy will play on Saturday.
One-Word Appositive:
Appositive Phrase: Ms. Smith, our best coach yet,
always encourages us.
Some proper nouns have more than one word, such as Boston Red
Sox. Some include titles that tell what a person is or does, such as
Ms. Gomez or Professor Chu.
Directions Underline each common noun with one line. Underline each proper noun
with two lines. Circle any appositives you find.
1. Do you know how to play basketball or baseball?
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2. My cousin Paulo loves soccer most of all.
3. Milo, my little dog, watches us play.
4. He stole our baseball and ran up Elm Street with it.
Directions Underline the two nouns in each sentence. Then write each noun under the
correct heading in the chart.
5. The nearest court is in Grove Street Park.
6. Look for Rico and me in the playground.
Common Nouns
Proper Nouns
7. We play basketball there every Saturday.
8. I have to go to City Hall after our game.
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Regular Plural Nouns
Singular nouns name one person, place, or thing.
Plural nouns name more than one person, place, or thing.
Add -s to form the plural of most nouns.
school/schools
dog/dogs
cow/cows
Add -es to form the plural of nouns that end in ch, sh, s, ss, or x.
ranch/ranches bush/bushes bus/buses cross/crosses fox/foxes
To form the plural of nouns that end in a consonant followed by a y,
change the y to i and add -es.
family/families
party/parties
pony/ponies
To form the plural of most nouns that end in f or fe, change the f or fe
to v and add -s or -es.
life/lives
calf/calves
wolf/wolves
Directions Write the plural noun in each sentence.
1. The students had a long bus ride to school.
2. They squeezed together like sardines in a can.
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3. Several families from the area rode the bus.
4. They lived on ranches and went to the same school.
5. There were no big cities nearby.
Directions Write each singular noun as a plural noun.
6. shelf
7. story
8. newspaper
9. box
10.baby
11.recess
12.teacher
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Irregular Plural Nouns
A plural noun names more than one person, place, or thing. Most nouns add -s
to form the plural. An irregular plural noun has a special form for the plural.
Singular NounsThe child learned about the woman long ago.
Irregular Plural NounsThe children learned about the women long ago.
Some nouns and their irregular plural forms are child/children, deer/deer,
foot/feet, goose/geese, man/men, moose/moose, mouse/mice, sheep/sheep,
and woman/women.
Directions Write S if the underlined noun is singular. Write P if it is plural.
1. The children were writing a play.
2. They would act the parts of men and women from history.
3. Each child played a different role.
4. People in the audience were quiet as mice.
5. For the backdrop, the stage crew drew pictures of some deer by a river. 4 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
Directions Write the plural form of each underlined singular noun.
6. Long ago, most people lived on farm and kept cow, sheep, chickens, and goose.
7. Man hunted wild game such as deer, moose, and bear to give the family more meat.
8. Woman canned food for their pantries.
9. Child might see calves being born in the barn.
10.Hard work kept them on their foot for long hours.
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Singular Possessive Nouns
A possessive noun shows ownership. A singular possessive noun shows that
one person, place, or thing has or owns something. Add an apostrophe (’) and
the letter s to a singular noun to make it possessive.
Singular NounsThe young man rode a mustang many miles.
Singular Possessive NounsThe mustang’s ears swiveled to hear the
man’s voice.
Directions Write the possessive form of each underlined singular noun.
1. saddle horn
2. rider pouch
3. horse food
4. trail danger
5. campfire smoke
6. Indian arrow
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7. settler cabin
8. winter chill
9. summer heat
10.Johnny Fry mail sack Directions Write the possessive form of each underlined noun.
11.Trigger first film with Roy Rogers was Under Western Skies. 12.The horse first name was Golden Cloud.
13.A palomino color is golden.
14.Roy love for Trigger led him to buy the horse for $2,500.
15.New York City Astor Hotel once had a party for the star.
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Plural Possessive Nouns
A plural possessive noun shows that something is owned or shared by
more than one person, place, or thing.
Add an apostrophe (’) to a plural noun that ends in -s, -es, or -ies.
our Presidents’ pets
the countries’ leaders
Add an apostrophe (’) and -s to a plural noun that does not end in -s, -es,
or -ies.
the women’s dresses the sheep’s fields
Directions Write the possessive form of each underlined plural noun.
1. wives clubs
2. lawyers cases
3. children classes
4. leaders meetings
5. guinea pigs teeth
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6. national parks trees
7. mice tails
8. moose hooves
9. houses doors
10.congressmen offices
Directions Write the possessive form of each underlined noun.
11.Our Presidents lives have all been very different. 12.These men heights, shapes, and ages have also varied.
13.Their families lives are hectic.
14.The Roosevelt children pets included guinea pigs, mice, and rats.
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