What do these words have in common?  Animal  Movie  Plant  Country  Book  City  Game  Group  Person  Food  Building  Flower  Town  Tiger

What do these words have in common?  Bullfrog  Seattle  Tacos  Oak tree  Chicago  The Beatles  Where the Wild Things Are  Star Wars  Monopoly  Australia  George Washington  Empire State Building  Terra Vista Middle School

Nouns A noun is a person, place, thing, quality, or idea. Teaching Grammar Through Writing Keith Polette

Nouns  Nouns can name people.  Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.  Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.

Nouns  Nouns can name places.  Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.  Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.

Nouns  Nouns can name things.  Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.  Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.

Nouns  Nouns can name a quality.  Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.  Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.

Nouns  Nouns can name ideas.  Nouns can be used as subjects and objects.  Write a sentence in which you use a noun as a subject. Write another one with a noun as an object.

Nouns  A noun can be either proper or common.  A proper noun names something specific.  A common noun names something general.  Write a sentence using both types of nouns.

Nouns  Nouns can be either concrete or abstract.  A concrete noun can be examined with five senses.  An abstract noun cannot be examined with the five senses.  Write a sentence that uses both a concrete and abstract noun.

Nouns  Nouns can be used as the subject of the sentence.  Write one sentence with a common noun as the subject.  Write one sentence with an abstract noun as the subject.

Nouns  Nouns can be used as objects.  Nouns used as direct objects answer the question, WHAT.  Nouns used as indirect objects as the questions, TO WHOM or FOR WHOM.

Nouns  Nouns can be used as objects.  Nouns used as objects of the preposition answer the question, WHAT.