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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Plurals Often Treated as Singular

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson focuses on words that appear plural but take a singular verb. It discusses the rules of subject-verb agreement, and then looks at three kinds of confusing words: indefinite pronouns, collective nouns, and misleading...
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This page focuses on nouns including definitions, types of nouns (person, place, thing/idea), common vs proper nouns, types of common nouns (concrete, abstract, collective), nouns as subjects, nouns as objects, nouns as subjective and...
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Other

Learning Farm: 2nd Grade Writing: Nouns Lesson

For Students K - 1st Standards
A brief engaging lesson to help students understand the process of making nouns plural or using collective nouns.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Three Serendipitous Nouns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
For this lesson, the book entitled A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? (Words Are Categorical), written by Brian P. Cleary, is used as the mentor text. After learning the basic definition of noun, a person, place, thing, or...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: All About Nouns

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a review of plural, collective, and abstract nouns. It starts off very basic and builds.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Parts of Speech Nouns

For Teachers 3rd - 9th Standards
[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.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Plurals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Investigate, collect and classify spelling patterns in pluralization; construct rules for regular spellings.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit and Comp: Modernism: Subject Verb Agreement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on subject verb agreement; it provides examples of agreement under a variety of circumstances and the offers a short self-assessment.
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Activity
Big Learners

Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.k.1.c : Kindergarten English Language Arts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is a collection of common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.K.1.C. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. All worksheets are free to view, download, or print.
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University of Washington

Mary Nell's Summary on Agreement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Excellent summaries in table form of agreement issues, particularly those involving subjects and verbs.
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Other

Using English: Glossary of English Grammar Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive A-Z index of grammar terms with explanations and examples. Each entry provides links to activities and other resources available on the site for more practice on that aspect of grammar. Suggested activities are often...
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Handout
Towson University

Towson University: Usage Pronoun Antecedent Agreement

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
An explanation of pronouns, antecedents, and the rules of pronoun-antecedent agreement. Examples of labeled sentences, indefinite pronouns, compound subjects, collective nouns, plural nouns, and more.
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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin, Madison: Subject Verb Agreement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This excellent site explains numerous guidelines, complete with examples, for determining subject-verb agreement.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Pronoun Agreement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify correct pronoun-antecedent agreement in the context of a sentence.
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Handout
English Club

English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Subject Verb Agreement

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An explanation and examples of subject-verb agreement including the use of compound subjects, midsentence words, singular/plural nouns, inverted subjects, collective nouns, indefinite pronouns, and fractions. Links to additional...