Animals and Things are Nouns

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Animals and Things are Nouns

• Lesson by
• Mrs. Moody

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Nouns name a person, place, animal, or thing

• This little noun
• Floating around
• Names a person, place, or thing
• With a knick-knack, paddy-whack
• These are English rules
• Isnt language fun and cool!

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Review

• Nouns can name people
• Mrs. Moody
• coach
• boy
• farmer
• Nouns can name places
• school
• Wal-Mart
• Hinesville
• barnyard

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Nouns can also name

• Animals
• cow
• Tara
• dog
• polar bear
• Things
• house
• carpet
• fence
• tree

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Time to practice!!

• We have practiced finding nouns that name people
  and places.
• But, remember, nouns also name animals and
  things.

• This is tricky!
• Look ONLY for the nouns that name ANIMALS and
  THINGS.
• Good Luck ?

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Which word names an animal or thing?

• The yellow butterfly is beautiful.
• a. yellow
• b. butterfly
• c. beautiful

butterfly
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Which word names an animal or thing?

• The weather is very cold in the Arctic.
• a. weather
• b. very
• c. Arctic

weather
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Which word names an animal or thing?

• The baby horse is learning to walk.
• a. horse
• b. walk
• c. learning

horse
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Which word names an animal or thing?

• The desert gets very little rainfall.
• a. gets
• b. rainfall
• c. little

rainfall
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Which word names an animal or thing?

• The tall trees grow in the forest.
• a. tall
• b. trees
• c. grow

trees
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Which word names an animal or thing?

• The waves crashed on the shore.
• a. the
• b. crashed
• c. waves

waves
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Which word names an animal or thing?

• The fluffy caterpillar is poisonous.
• a. fluffy
• b. caterpillar
• c. poisonous

caterpillar
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Which word names an animal or thing?

• Eating is fun for this pig.
• a. eating
• b. pig
• c. fun

pig
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Which word names an animal or thing?

• Sitting on the snow is cold!
• a. snow
• b. cold
• c. on

snow
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Which word names an animal or thing?

• Pinecones smell good in winter.
• a. smell
• b. good
• c. pinecones

pinecones