Sentences and Sentence Fragments - Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

Name
Nouns
Date
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Look at the words in the box and circle all the nouns. Then write the correct noun in
each blank in one of the limericks. (Remember that the first, second, and fifth lines
rhyme, as do the second and third lines.) All nouns will be used.
earthquake silly Dave Culver City highly Cascade
concerned sight Boise toe sounds although
wonderful crowd washer washed contrary mild
There once was a
in
Whose motor was terribly noisy.
The
that it made
Could be heard in
And sometimes as far as New Joisey.
An once shook ,
The
of which sure wasn’t pretty.
To cheer up the ,
I whistled quite loud
Until someone said, “Please, do have pity!”
McGraw-Hill School Division
There once was a cellist named
Who practiced inside of a cave.
When the scrape of his bow
Made him shake head to ,
He said, “Come, now, you sound waves, behave!”
McGraw-Hill Language Arts
Grade 5, Unit 2, Nouns,
pages 88–89
At Home: Have fun making up your own limericks using
as many different kinds of nouns as you can—people,
places, things, ideas.
Critical Thinking
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