Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Nouns
A complete tutorial on identifying and using nouns that starts with identifying the nouns in "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music. Includes links to other noun grammar pages.
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Grammar quizzes.com: Possessive Nouns: Indicating Possession
A series of carts containing rules and examples of possessives including singular and plural common nouns, proper nouns, inanimate nouns, days and holidays, and numbers and letters. A fourteen-question practice exercise follows the...
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Grammar: Proper Noun or Common Noun Quiz
Label each underlined word as either a proper noun or a common noun in this twelve-question quiz.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the difference between common and proper nouns.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: What Is a Noun?
[Free Registration/Login Required] What is a noun? Use this flipchart to learn the differences between common and proper nouns. See real life photos as well as illustrations to arrange in a graphic organizer. Use the Activotes to assess...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Parts of Speech Nouns
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students to understand the difference between common and proper nouns, plural and singular nouns, possessive nouns, and abstract, concrete, and collective nouns.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will recognize the definition of a noun, use the highlighter tool to find nouns in a sentence and recognize common and proper nouns.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: What Is a Proper Noun?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines proper nouns and includes a short video about proper nouns.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Capitalization: Proper vs. Common Nouns and Adjectives
Learn how to distinguish proper nouns and adjectives from common ones so you will be able to capitalize them correctly. This tutorial gives several examples and detailed explanations. A brief quiz will check your understanding.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Adjectives and Adverbs
This tutorial explores the difference between adjectives and adverbs so you can use them properly.
TES Global
Blendspace: Noun Types Review
A six-part learning module with links images, websites, slides, and a video on different types of nouns including common, proper, collective, verbal, compound, abstract, concrete, countable, and uncountable.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Making Proper Names Plural but Not Possessive
This tutorial explains how to make your last name plural when sending greetings from your entire family (or anytime you are talking about your entire family.) This is a very common grammatical problem, and it is explained clearly here....
InterLink Language Centers
Interlink Language Centers: Noun Identification Quiz
Simple 10-question interactive quiz on noun identification.
Scholastic
Scholastic: When Grammar Meets Art
Grammar lessons that involve kinesthetic games and art projects. Here is a lesson plan for teaching types of nouns through a partner exploration and a whole class art project. Let me show you just how fun grammar can be!
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Capitalization: Family Relationships (Used as Proper Names)
This page explains that family relationships such as Mom, Dad, Uncle, and Aunt are capitalized if they are used as names, but are not capitalized if used as common nouns such as my mom, his dad, etc. Examples are provided.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used as a review and assessment of nouns or as a way to introduce nouns. It covers what a noun is, common/proper nouns, singular/plural nouns, and possessive nouns.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based on,"The Dog Who Saved Nome".. Its objectives contain word relationships, homophones, antonyms, synonyms, fact and opinion, common and proper nouns, and problem/solution.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization
This tutorial teaches standard rules of capitalization and common errors. It offers a PowerPoint presentation over the rules for capitalizing proper nouns and information on capitalizing abbreviations with examples. This is followed by...
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Spanish in Texas: Spanish Grammar in Context Introduction to Negation
This Spanish language reference clarifies information about types of nouns. Examples related to common vs. proper nouns, count vs. mass nouns, singular vs. plural nouns, masculine vs. feminine nouns are included. Audio and written...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Basics of Capitalization
This lesson focuses on capitalization by providing a PDF of the 10 fundamental rules of capitalization and common errors. It also provides two short videos: "Capitalizing Proper Nouns" and "Capitalizing Headings and Titles." Real Player...
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Planet Interactive, Inc.: Learning Planet: Rats!
Play three multi-level interactive games where the player moves Rusty Rat back and forth trying to catch common nouns, proper nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs in a basket. Be sure to catch the correct part of speech because too many...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 2nd Grade Lesson Plans for Forming Possessives
This article focuses on teaching 2nd graders to form possessive. It provides two complete lesson plans with activities for teaching them how to form possessives.