Nouns

• English
• 4th Grade

Nouns

• they are important words
• person, place, things, or ideas
•   noun often has is to be the subject of a sentence.
•  subject is often the one that does the action of the verb.

•  Bob plays baseball. Because Bob is the one doing the playing, Bob is the subject of the sentence. 
• the subject is the noun, making Bob the noun because he is a person, place, thing, or idea.

Common or Proper Nouns

• a common noun-is a nouns that begin with a lower case letter
• ex. horse, girl, school, boots
• a proper noun-is one with an ordinary name
• Occasionally, simple subjects that are proper nouns are two words, such as a first and last name.

ex. Trystan, Texas, NCHA, Trystan Crow  

Many other workable ideas came from the mind of this timid man. One idea he had was to invent a manned and unmanned spacecraft that would reach the moon and planets and return to earth. Another idea was to build a manned station on the moon. Find the nouns.

1. unmanned planets idea spacecraft
2. mind another return man
3. earth station mind another
4. another return moon man

Find the complete subject for the following sentence.

Robert Goddard read War of the Worlds.

1. War of the Worlds
2. Robert Goddard
3. read
4. Robert

Find the complete subject for the following sentence.

The story stirred his youthful imagination.

1. imagination
2. story
3. his
4. youthful

Find the complete subject for the following sentence.

The quick-thinking fireman saved the family.

1. fireman
2. saved
3. family
4. quick-thinking fireman

My friend Ayla plays soccer and basketball.
Which are the common nouns? Select three answers.

1. Ayala plays soccer
2. Ayala soccer basketball
3. plays soccer basketball
4. friend Ayala plays

Read the sentence carefully.

Steve and his sister visited their grandparents for Easter.

1. sister grandparents
2. sister Easter
3. Steve Easter
4. sister visited

Write a proper noun for each common noun in the paragraph box below.
1. city:
2. day:

3. month:

4. teacher:

5. language:

6. street: