A common noun names a person, place, or thing that is no

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Nouns Fourth Grade Language ArtsMrs. Bowles
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Nouns

• Common and Proper Nouns
• Singular and Plural Nouns
• Possessive Nouns

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What are nouns? A noun is a person, place, or
thing.
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Common and Proper Nouns

• A common noun names a person, place, or thing
  that is not specific.
• Common nouns are not capitalized, unless the
  common noun is the first word in the sentence.

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Common and Proper Nouns

• A proper noun names a particular person, place,
  or thing.
• Proper nouns are always capitalized.

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Proper Nouns

• Proper nouns include

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Common and Proper Nouns

• Common

• Proper

• boy
• school
• day
• city
• lady
• month
• river

• Steven
• South Salem
• Wednesday
• New York
• Mrs. Humphrey
• October
• James River

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Common and Proper Nouns
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Singular and Plural Nouns

• Singular Nouns name one person, place, or thing.
• One Cat
• Plural Nouns name more than one person, place, or
  thing.
• Three Cats

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Spelling Plural Nouns

• Usually, you just add s
• dog, dogs
• cat, cats
• shoe, shoes
• car, cars
• pillow, pillows

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Spelling Plural Nouns

• Add es to nouns that end in
• s, ss, sh, ch, or x
• bus, buses
• dress, dresses
• church, churches
• box, boxes

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Spelling Plural Nouns

• If a noun ends in a consonant followed by a y,
  change the y to i and add es
• baby, babies
• lady, ladies
• pony, ponies

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Spelling Plural Nouns

• If a noun ends in a vowel followed by y, just
  add s
• key, keys
• boy, boys
• monkey, monkeys

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Spelling Plural Nouns

• For most nouns that end in an f or fe, change
  the f or fe to v
• and add es
• knife, knives
• leaf, leaves
• Exceptions
• roof, roofs
• giraffe, giraffes

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Spelling Plural Nouns

• Some nouns change their spelling
• foot, feet
• tooth, teeth
• child, children
• mouse, mice
• man, men
• woman, women

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Spelling Plural Nouns

• Some nouns are the same singular and plural
• deer, deer
• moose, moose
• sheep, sheep

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Possessive Nouns show ownership.

• Add s to make a singular noun possessive.
•  Example
• The dogs bowl is empty.
• singular
• The bowl of the dog.
• singular
  
  
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Possessive Nouns

• Add to a plural noun that ends with an s.
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• Example
• The boys team won the game.
• plural
• The team of the boys.
• plural
  
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Possessive Nouns

• Add s to a plural noun that ends in a letter
  other than s.
• Example
• The childrens teacher is nice.
• plural
• The teacher of the children.
• plural