NOUNS

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NOUNS

• Definitions and spelling rules

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Nouns

• Names a person, place, thing, or idea
• Common nouns any person, place, thing, or idea
• Car, boy, girl, city
• Proper nouns a particular person, place, thing
  or idea
• Ferrari, James, Susie, Houston

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Singular and Plural Nouns

• Singular nouns name only one person, place,
  thing, or idea.
• Plural nouns name more than one person, place,
  thing, or idea.

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Rules for forming plural nouns

• Regular nouns add only s
• girl girls
• desk desks
• door doors
• Nouns ending with s, -ss, -ch, -sh, -x, -z, or
  o - add es
• fox foxes church churches
• bush bushes class classes

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More rules for forming plural nouns -

• Nouns ending in y and have a consonant before
  the y, change the y to an i and add es
• baby babies lady ladies
• Nouns ending in y with a vowel before the y,
  add only s.
• boy boys toy toys

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More rules for forming plural nouns -

• Nouns ending in f or fe, change the f to a v
  and add es.
• life lives loaf loaves
• Some nouns are irregular and change its spelling.
• man men tooth teeth ox oxen
• child children foot feet goose geese
• woman women mouse mice

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More rules for forming plural nouns

• Some nouns never change!
• deer deer
• trout trout
• fish fish
• moose moose
• sheep sheep
• salmon salmon

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Possessive nouns show ownership.

• Possessive rules
• All singular nouns, no matter the ending, add
  apostrophe () and s.
• Shirt of the boy - boys shirt
• Work of the class classs work
• All plural nouns that end with s, add only an
  apostrophe ().
• Purses of the ladies ladies purses

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Possessive rules continued

• All plural nouns that do not end with s, add an
  apostrophe () and s.
• Wings of the geese geeses wings
• Pants of the men mens pants