1. Compound Noun
Is made of two or more words used together as a single noun. May be written as: -a single word: liftoff, spacecraft, footsteps, birthday -two or more separate words: rocket engine, peanut butter, police officer -a hyphenated word: light-year, self-esteem, sister-in-law, great-grandmother

2. Plurals of One-Word Compound Nouns
To form the plural of a one-word compound noun, follow the general rules for plurals.
birthday birthdays
printout printouts
bookshelf bookshelves
photocopy photocopies
PP 5-3

3. Plurals of Hyphenated Compound Nouns With Nouns
To form the plural of a hyphenated compound noun with nouns, make the most important word plural.
sister-in-law sisters-in-law
runner-up runners-up
senator-elect senators-elect
PP 5-4

4. Practice Singular Singular possessive Plural Plural possessive boxes
family
sister-in-law
oxen

5. Practice Singular Singular possessive Plural Plural possessive box
box’s
boxes
boxes'
family
family‘s
families
families’
sister-in-law
sister-in-law’s
sisters-in-law
sisters-in-law’s ox
ox’s
oxen
oxen‘s

6. Nouns as Subjects and Subject Complements
A noun can be the subject of a sentence, or it can work as a complement.

7. Subject
A subject tells whom or what the sentence is about. Comets are made of ice, dust, and gas.

8. Predicate Noun (PN)
-will always come after a linking verb -RENAMES the subject Philadelphia is the largest city. Subject= Philadelphia city= PN The capital of Michigan is Lansing. Subject= capital Lansing= PN

9. Nouns as Direct Objects

10. Direct Object Asks: What? Whom?
Many people ride bicycles. do New Yorkers take the subway. do Mother will drive Kim to her swimming lesson. do

11. Nouns as Indirect Objects

12. Indirect object To whom? To what? For whom? For what? Find verb
Find direct object
Usually will be in the middle verb indirect object direct object

13. To whom? To what? For whom? For what? FIRST FIND THE DIRECT OBJECT
1. Lisa told the children a story about an elephant. Lisa told what? List told a story. Lisa told the story to whom? Lisa told the story to the children. Children= Indirect object. 2. Pat gave Paul a record for his birthday. s v io do

14. Find the a. subject b. direct object c. indirect object if there is one
1) We ate steak for dinner. 2) Snow and ice covered the streets. 3) She gave Paul violin lessons. 4) Everyone loves candy. 5) The teacher gave us an assignment.

15. 1) We ate steak for dinner. s v do 2) Snow and ice covered the streets
1) We ate steak for dinner. s v do 2) Snow and ice covered the streets. s s v do 3) She gave Paul violin lessons. s v io do 4) Everyone loves candy. s v do 5) The teacher gave us an assignment. S v io do