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Nouns
Common nouns are names for general people, places and things, proper nouns
tell us exactly who or what are the specific things in a sentence and collective
nouns are the names for groups of people, places and things.
Example: The team (collective noun) played a good game (common noun) on
Saturday (proper noun).
Without nouns, sentences give little information and can be hard to understand,
but by using nouns, sentences are more informative.
Example: He went to there, got her, and put her up there out of reach of them.
King Kong went to the hotel window, reached in, got Ann, and put his
friend up on top of the building out of reach of the soldiers.
1. (a) Read the email containing few nouns and uncapitalised proper nouns.
(b)
Rewrite the email, adding capital letters and some further nouns for extra meaning.
SuperMail
Hi dawn, it’s sandy! I hope things are well in riverville, it’s all good over here. I’m
happy ‘coz dad finally bought me that game I wanted ... but mum only lets me
play with it on saturday and sunday. It’s so unfair! Anyway, we’re going out this
wednesday to some restaurant with dakota’s team. I’m looking forward to eating
lots! Bye ... sandy.
2. Make as many nouns (four or more letters long) as you can from these letters. Use the letters in any
order, but each letter can only be used once.
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