Unit 1: Parts of Speech
Lesson 2
Copyright by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Name Class Lesson 2 Nouns: Proper, Common, and Collective A proper noun names a specific person, place, or thing. Capitalize proper nouns. A common noun refers to people, places, or things in general. Person: Place: Thing: Idea: Date PROPER NOUNS Douglas MacArthur Maryland. Rover Scholasticism A collective noun names a group. A collective noun is singular if it refers to the group as a whole, and plural if it refers to individual members of a group. The team is winning. The team pack up their equipment. COMMON NOUNS general state dog philosophy Exercise 1 Write prop. above each proper noun, com. above each common noun, and col. above each collective noun. Assume the collective nouns are also common nouns. prop. com. com. col. com. General Chow, my cat, rarely accepts newcomers into his exclusive fraternity of friends. 1. The milling crowd slowly dispersed after Sheriff Stone asked them to leave. 2. Mrs. Paulus told my mom that you have the chicken pox. 3. The crew on the boat relaxed after they anchored their vessel in the harbor. 4. Did you hear that the Thompsons are moving from Springfield to Indianapolis? 5. The entire community rejoiced to hear that the arsonist had at last been caught. 6. Of all the American presidents, I'd say my favorite is Theodore Roosevelt. 7. After only an hour, the jury returned its much anticipated verdict to Judge Eason. 8. The Western Tennis Association congratulated the Adams High School tennis team for winning the league championship. 9. I have a picture of a squadron of rare airplanes flying side by side. 10. If I ever created a periodical, I'd call it The American Mercury, after a magazine of long ago. 11. We studied about Fyodor Dostoevsky, a Russian writer of the nineteenth century. 12. The company my father works for has asked him to relocate to Alaska. 13. Mr. Todd asked me to paint his house with two gallons of paint. 14. Who could have believed that a speaker could have swayed so vast a multitude? Grammar Unit 1, Parts of Speech 49
