English 4 - Chapter 4 - Nouns - Seton
What is a common noun?
A common noun names any person, place, or thing.
What is the plural form of the word deer?
deer
A singular noun names ___________ person, place, or thing.
one
After finding the predicate, draw a ______________________________ line in front of it that goes through the horizontal line.
vertical
To diagram a sentence that has a direct object, you should draw a ________________________ line (that does not go through the horizontal line) after the ____________________________________. Write the direct object there.
vertical predicate
What is a proper noun?
A proper noun is a noun that names a specific person, place thing, activity, or idea and must be capitalized.
Which noun is the subject of this sentence? "Most children love to play in the snow."
Action word: play, Who loves to play? Answer: children , so children is the subject
How would this phrase be said with a possessive noun? the book of Marcella
Marcella's book (Marcella is a singular noun, add an apostrophe, then an s)
In this chapter you also learned that a noun can be used as the _______________________ _________________________ of a sentence.
direct object
Some nouns, like child and ox, are made plural by adding ________ to the end of the word.
en
Nouns that end with the letters s, x, z, ch, or sh form the plural by adding _________ to the singular word.
es
When you begin to make the diagram you should draw a ________________________ line on your paper.
horizontal
Nouns that end in y preceded by a consonant form the plural by changing the y to _______ and adding _________.
i, es
A plural noun names _______ _________ _______ person, place, or thing
more than one
A third way nouns can be used that you learned in this chapter is to show ____________________________________ or __________________________________
ownership, possession
Write the __________________________________________ on the horizontal line.
predicate
A diagram is a drawing that shows the ______________________ ____ _____________ in a sentence
relationship of words
The plural form of many nouns is made simply by adding the letter _______ to the end of the word.
s
Some nouns are the same both in the plural form and the singular form. Can you think of 3?
scissors, deer, sheep
To diagram a possessive noun in a sentence: draw a _________________________ line below the noun that it describes and write it there.
slanted (look on page 95 in your workbook to see examples)
What is the plural form of the word story?
stories
Ask yourself "who" or "what" (insert action or being word) ? That is the _____________________________________ of the sentence, write it in front of the vertical line.
subject
In this chapter you learned that one of the ways a noun can be used in a sentence is as the __________________________ of a sentence.
subject
What are the plural forms of the nouns tooth, goose, man, woman?
teeth, geese, men, women
how would this phrase be said with a possessive noun? the prayers of the children
the children's prayers ("children" is a plural noun but it does not end in s, so you make it possessive by adding an apostrophe and then the letter s)
how would this phrase be said with a possessive noun? the chairs of the students
the students' chairs (students is a plural noun that ends with the letter s, just add an apostrophe)
The subject of the sentence answers the questions _________? or ____________? before the _____________________ word or _________________ word in that sentence.
who? what? action being
The direct object answers the questions ____________ or ____________after the action word.
whom? what?
What is a noun?
A noun names a person, place, or thing.
What is the direct object in a sentence?
The direct object receives the action of the action word.
In the sentence "My parents were married at St. Anne Catholic Church in Rochester, New York." name the 4 nouns. Which of these is a common noun? What are the proper nouns?
The four nouns are parents, St. Anne Catholic Church, Rochester, New York. "parents" is a common noun, "St. Anne Catholic Church, Rochester, and New York" are proper nouns.
Which noun is the direct object in this sentence? " The scientist conducted an experiment.:"
The scientist conducted what? Answer: experiment, so experiment is the direct object
What is the subject of a sentence?
The subject of a sentence tells the person, place or thing that the sentence is about.
Before you start diagramming a sentence, you should look at it and determine what the ________________________ or _______________ word is. That is also called the predicate
action, being
What are common being words?
am, are, is, was, were
A plural noun can be used to show ownership or possession by adding an ____________________________________________________ at the end of the word.
apostrophe
A singular noun can be used to show ownership or possession by adding an ___________________________________ and the letter _____ to the end of the word.
apostrophe s
To form the possessive form of a plural noun that does not end with the letter "s", (for example, "children" or "men") you should add an ________________________________ and after that the letter ___________
apostrophe s
What is the plural form of the nouns city, baby, lady?
cities, babies, ladies
