Nouns

Question 1

What is a noun?

Answer 1

A noun names a person, place, or thing.

Question 2

Define a proper noun.

Answer 2

A proper noun is the name of a specific person, place, or thing and begins with a capital letter.

Question 3

What is a possessive noun?

Answer 3

A possessive noun shows who or what owns or has something.

Question 4

How do you make a singular noun possessive?

Answer 4

By adding an apostrophe and an -s.

Question 5

How do you make a plural noun that ends in -s possessive?

Answer 5

By adding the apostrophe to the end of the word.

Question 6

Give an example of a singular possessive noun.

Answer 6

boy’s

Question 7

Give an example of a plural possessive noun.

Answer 7

boys’

Question 8

What is a plural noun?

Answer 8

Plural nouns name more than one person, place, or thing.

Question 9

What is the rule for plural nouns that end in s, ss, sh, ch, z, or x?

Answer 9

Add es.

Question 10

What is the rule for plural nouns that end in a vowel + y?

Answer 10

Add s.

Question 11

What is the rule for plural nouns that end in a vowel + o?

Answer 11

Add s.

Question 12

What is the rule for plural nouns that end in a consonant + o?

Answer 12

Add -es.

Question 13

List exceptions to the plural rule for nouns ending in ‘o’.

Answer 13

• photo = photos
• piano = pianos

Question 14

What is the rule for plural nouns that end in f or fe?

Answer 14

Change f or fe to v and add -es.

Question 15

List exceptions for nouns that end in ‘f’ or ‘fe’.

Answer 15

• cliff = cliffs
• roof = roofs

Question 16

What is the rule for plural nouns that end in a consonant + y?

Answer 16

Change the y to i and then add es.

Question 17

List exceptions for nouns that don’t follow the other rules.

Answer 17

• man = men
• woman = women
• child = children
• person = people
• goose = geese
• mouse = mice
• ox = oxen
• octopus = octopi or octopuses
• cactus = cacti

Question 18

Which nouns remain the same in plural form?

Answer 18

• deer
• fish
• sheep
• moose
• corn
• seaweed

Question 19

What is a collective noun?

Answer 19

Collective nouns name a group of people or things.

Question 20

Give an example of a collective noun.

Answer 20

army, band, class, club, crowd, swarm, deck, family

Question 21

Fill in the blank: A _______ names a group of people or things.

Answer 21

collective noun

Question 22

When a plural noun doesn’t end in s, what do we add to show possession?

Answer 22

We add an ‘s

Example: The children’s class went to the zoo.
Men= men’s

Question 23

What is an antecedent?

Answer 23

The antecedent is the noun or nouns the pronouns stands for.
Example: Micah and I are building a model. We are working on it today.

The pronoun ‘we’ stands for the antecedents ‘Micah and I’