Nouns
What is a common noun?
 names any one of a group of objects
 e.g. person, farm, vegetable
What is a proper noun?
 names a particular person, place, or thing
 e.g. Toronto, the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Elvis Presley
What is a concrete noun?
 names things you can see or touch
 e.g. a car
What is an abstract noun?
 names an idea, quality, action, or feeling
 e.g. happiness, materialism, camping
What is a collective noun?
 names a group of persons or things
 e.g. crowd, public, citizenry
 A murder of crows, a flock of seagulls, a gaggle of geese, a herd of cows.
What is an appositive?
 a noun or pronoun that identifies or explains the noun or pronoun it
follows.
e.g. The cat, who was fat, ran home.
In the sentence above, the appositive is "who was fat".
Grammar Game
Appositives
Compound
Words
Make a
compound
word with
"fall"
Punctuation
Homonyms
Nouns
Use commas
correctly in this
sentence: I have
flour,
shortening, and
apples.
What is a
homonym for
"weigh?"
(spell it)
What kind of
noun is "The
Statute of
Liberty?"
State the
appositive: The
composer
Mozart made
music
State the
appositive:
Rick, a
fisherman,
sailed home
today
Make a
compound
word with
"light"
Punctuate a
declarative
sentence of
your choice
What is a
homonym for
"deer?"
(spell it)
What kind of
noun is
"Adrienne
Clarkson?"
Make a
compound
word with
"arm"
What is a
homonym for
"hanger?"
(spell it)
What kind of
noun is "The
Rocky
Mountains?"
Make up a
sentence with
an appositive in
it.
Make a
compound
word with "sit"
What is a
homonym for
"lesson?"
(spell it)
What kind of
noun is "apple
turnovers?"
Make up a
sentence with
an appositive in
it.
Make a
compound
word with
"dress"
Illustrate or
explain the
difference
between a dash
and a hyphen.
A dash offsets a
phrase, while a
hyphen makes
an adjective /
noun (e.g. halflife) or a
preposition /
verb (e.g. runoff) into one
word
Daily TRIPLE
Punctuate the
following
quotation
correctly: Rob
shouted, "We
don't have any
more sugar!"
Use a colon
correctly in a
sentence
Daily Double
What is a
homonym for
"troupe?"
(spell it)
What kind of
noun is "world
peace?"
State the
appositive: My
sister Anita
came home to
visit
Daily Double
Make up a
sentence with
an appositive in
it.
Daily Double
Make up a
compound
word.
Use a semicolon correctly
in a sentence
Make up a
word and give
its homonym
Make up a noun
and explain
what kind of
noun it is
Grammatically Correct!!
Appositives
Punctuation
Homonyms
Nouns
200
Compound
Words
200
200
200
200
400
400
400
400
400
600
600 Armpit T1
600
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600
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800
800
800
800
1000
1000
Dressmaker T2
1000 Troop and
Troupe T1
1000 Abstract
Noun
T2
2400 DD-The
artist, Picasso,
was a well
known artist.
T2
1200
Toothpaste
T2
2000 DD- I
found a
shopping list on
the fridge. On it
were these
items: oranges,
bananas, milk,
ham, bacon,
juice, bread,
beef, broccoli,
carrots. T2
1200 She was
going to win;
the others didn't
have shoes. T1
1200 Flour and
Flower
T1
1200 ForkConcrete Noun
T1
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Appositives
Grammatically Correct!!
200
Compound
Words
200
Punctuation
Homonyms
Nouns
400
400
200 - I have
flour,
shortening, and
apples T2
400
200
200
400
400
600
600
600
600
600 What kind
of noun is
"mountain?"
common noun
and concrete
noun T1
800 Toronto is
a proper choice
T2
1000 "apple" is
a common noun
T1
800
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800
800
1000
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1200
1200
grandfather is a
compound
1400 Use a
colon correctly
in a sentence
For Hanukah I
want: a doll, a
dog, and a
vacation!! DD
1200 T2 My
grandfather
died; we just
1200
1200 Cleveland
- a proper noun
T1
word.
had his funeral.
Compound
Words
200
Punctuation
Homonyms
Nouns
200
200
200
400T2
400
400
400
600 T1
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1000
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1400 T2
600
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800
1000
1200 T2
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