Ingles

A noun is a person, place, or thing.

A Person
wizard teacher dancer grandma chef student doctor

A Place
kitchen cabin church

city school beach

A Thing
baseball butterfly

bed carbus

mouse

Common Nouns and Proper Nouns
• A noun that names any person,

place, or thing is a common noun. •A noun that names a particular person, place, or thing is a proper noun.Statue of Liberty pencil book house President Reagan County Line Rd.

cat

man

White House

Singular and Plural Nouns
• A noun that names only one person,

place, or thing is called a singularnoun. • A noun that names more than one person, place, or thing is called a plural noun.

Plural Nouns
• Add s to most singular nouns to make them plural.

books

pencils

truck s girlss s

baseball

Plural Nouns •Add es to a singular noun that ends with s, x, ch, or sh.
foxes dish es lunches glasses bus es churches

brushes

•If a noun ends with a vowel and a y, add s.Plural Nouns

key s toys

highways monkeys

boys

trays

Plural Nouns
• If a noun ends with a consonant and a y, change the y to an i and add es.
butterflyies butterflies lady iesladies bunny ies bunnies

puppy ies puppies

Plural Nouns
•Some nouns have special plural forms. •Since these words follow no special pattern, you must learn them.

Singular Possessive Nouns
•Add an apostrophe and an s to a singular noun to make it possessive. swimming
web pool roof boy’s swimming pool slingshot spider’s web

house’s roof

Mark’s slingshot

•When a plural noun endswith s, add an birds’ nest apostrophe.
wings girls’ cat butterflies’ wings nest teacher

Plural Possessive Nouns

strollers babies’ strollers

cat

students’ teacher

2. When a plural noundoesn’t end with s, add an apostrophe and an s.
fur children’s blocks blocks The children’s blocks are big. eyes mice’s fur The mice’s fur is black. women’s eyes The women’s eyes are brown....