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Nouns Review
Language Arts-8
Write the italicized nouns in the following paragraph. Identify each one as Common
Noun or Proper Noun. Capitalize the proper nouns.
1) kobe bryant is an excellent athlete.
2) He has won many championships.
3) He currently play for the los angelos lakers.
4) Did you know that when he was younger he lived outside of the united states?
5) His father was also a professional athlete.
Write the correct plural form of each italicized noun in the following sentences.
1) Nancy Lopez started playing golf when she was eight year old.
2) She competed in match with other child.
3) Lopez’s coach quickly recognized her talent.
4) She was the first girl to play with boy on a high school golf team.
5) In 1977, she competed in professional tournament for woman.
Find the nouns that should be possessive. Write the correct possessive form.
1) Tennis history is filled with athletes amazing achievements.
2) In the 1970s and 1980s, Sweden Bjorn Borg was one of the sport finest players.
3) During his successful career, he earned his opponents admiration.
4) Reporters stories also praised Borg for his accomplishments.
5) Borg helped win his country first Davis Cup.
Write the correct plural or possessive form of each italicized noun in these sentences.
1) Jackie Robinson professional baseball career began in 1945.
2) Robinson played for the Monarch, an all-African-American tam.
3) At that time no African American were playing in the nation major leagues.
4) In the late 1940s, the Brooklyn Dodgers president, Branch Rickey, hired
Robinson to play on his team.
5) Rickeys decision was a bold step and helped to end prejudice in professional
baseball.
Write the following sentences, correcting the errors in plural and possessive forms.
1) Jim Thorpes great-grandfather was Black Hawk, one of the famous Native
American chieves of the 1800s.
2) As a young man, Thorpe attended class at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School,
where he played on the schools football team.
3) From 1915 to 1930, Thorpe achieved fame as one of professional footballs’ heros.
4) He could kick the football eighty yard and outrun his opponentes.
5) Such displayes of strength and speed earned him peoples’ praise.