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

2. 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
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3. A noun is a person, place, thing, quality, or idea.
Nouns
A noun is a person, place, thing, quality, or idea.
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4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

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