Scary Good Grammar: Nouns
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LESSON: Part One: Underline the 41 nouns in the twenty sentences of the following passage
from the story "Weird Beard."
1. As I crept through the forest of hair, fear tingled down my spine. 2. I searched the tangles in
front of me for the rustling thing I had heard. 3. A drop of sweat rolled into my eye. 4. I wiped it
away with my sleeve. 5. I took a step backward.
6. I took another step backward.
7. Horror replaced my terror.
8. I took another step.
9. I didn't see that my shoelace was untied. 10. I stepped on the lace and tripped. 11. I
screamed and fell into a tangle of curly hair. 12. The baseball bat slipped out of my sweaty hand
and vanished into the black thatch.
13. A monster, the size of a large dog, jumped on my chest. 14. It had six prickly legs,
two black eyes, and a flat body shaped like a fish. 15. It was the most horrible thing I had ever
seen. 16. It was worse than the pink bunny outfit my Aunt Ferdy had given me for my birthday
one year.
17. And then I realized that this was no monster. 18. I recognized the creature from The
Big Book of Insects.
19. It was a flea, the biggest flea I had ever seen. 20. I was stunned.
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Part Two: Using Part One as a guide, write each noun in the appropriate blank and then
underline the correct classes.
Example 1: As I crept through the forest of hair, fear tingled down my spine.
A. First noun: forest. common or proper, abstract or concrete, singular or plural.
B. Second noun: hair. common or proper, abstract or concrete, singular or plural
C. Third noun: fear common or proper, abstract or concrete singular, or plural
D. Fourth noun: spine common or proper, abstract or concrete singular, or plural
Sentence 2
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
B. Second Noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract
or concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 3
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
B. Second Noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract
or concrete, singular or plural.
C. Third noun __________________ Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 4
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 5
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
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Sentence 6
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 7
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
B. Second Noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract
or concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 8
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 9
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 10
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 11
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
B. Second Noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract
or concrete, singular or plural.
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Sentence 12
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
B. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
C. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 13
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
B. Second Noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract
or concrete, singular or plural.
C. Third noun __________________ Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
D. Fourth noun __________________(Underline what kind) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 14
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
B. Second Noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract
or concrete, singular or plural.
C. Third noun __________________ Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
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D. Fourth noun __________________(Underline what kind) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 15
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 16
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
B. Second Noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract
or concrete, singular or plural.
C. Third noun __________________ Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
D. Fourth noun __________________(Underline what kind) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 17
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 18
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
B. Second noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract
or concrete, singular or plural.
C. Third noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
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Sentence 19
A. First Noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
Sentence 20
A. First noun __________________ (Underline each class) common or proper, abstract or
concrete, singular or plural.
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