Day A Solutions

Video A1: Nouns

A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea.

	Definition	Examples
Person	An individual or group of humans	Barty, friend, Team USA, bakers
Place	A location or area	Main Street, playground, the Southeast, shop
Thing 1	A thing you can touch	WWII Memorial, cereal, the Ohio River, zebras
Thing 2	A thing that can be done	go on a hike, a cheer, in a flash, a loud laugh
Idea (Thing 3)	A thing you cannot touch	happiness, anger, curiosity, friendship

There are two main types of nouns.
A common noun is a non-specific name for a person, place, thing, or idea.
- It is one word.
- It always starts with a lowercase letter.
  skater city rabbit dream
A proper noun is a specific name for a person, place, thing, or idea.
- It can be more than one word.
- Each word starts with a capital letter.
  Ira Jonston New York City Fluffy The American Dream

Checkpoint: Nouns

Circle the nouns. Add a star over proper nouns.

rat flower handsome Thursday jogging Darcy very sadness student Country Courtyard

A2: The Process

The Process is a specific set of steps you follow to parse and diagram sentences.
To parse is to identify and label words as their parts of speech:
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To diagram is to map the sentence to see how the words work together:

The Process

Step 1: Parse all common and proper nouns.

How do I find nouns?

As you read, ask yourself, “What are the people, places, things, or ideas in this sentence?”

Jill told Jack that a hungry gopher ate the vegetables in the garden.

How do I label nouns?

Write n above common nouns, and pn above proper nouns:

pn Dr. Rue Bazil gave her nneighbor the longest ncarrot of the nbunch.

Checkpoint: The Process

Follow The Process to parse this sentence.

pn Fluffy McFluff could barely fit through the ndoor of her ncage.

Note

Reinforce the use of “wings” when a proper noun is more than one word long. The wings need to clearly include all of the words that make up theproper noun.

Exercise 1A

Use your notes to complete all parts of this exercise.

Part 1

Fill in the blank to complete each sentence.

A proper noun begins with a capital letter and can be more than one word.
A noun can be a person, place, thing, or idea

Part 2

Follow The Process to parse each sentence.

Example:

Our nclub voted on the greatest nfable of the nyear.

pn Mr. Charm read our ngroup a short nstory called pn Fields and Dreams.
My ncousin loved the ntale and the main ncharacter, pn Mikey Mikal Michaels.
This nmyth brought njoy to the other nkids in our ngroup, too.