Nouns!People, places, things, dates…

Common or Proper?

Proper Nouns• names of specific nouns

(meaning there is usually only one of them)

• names of people, cities, states, countries, months, brand names, buildings, etc…

• we capitalize proper nouns

Common Nouns• general words for

categories of nouns • these nouns are not

capitalized

Common or Proper?List some nouns under each category.

Proper Nouns Common Nouns

Types of Common Nouns

Count Nouns• Nouns we can count

separately (1 bean, 2 beans, 10 beans)

• can be singular or plural

• use an article (a, an, the)• verb is singular or

plural too (is/are)

Non-Count Nouns• nouns we cannot

use numbers with (rice)

• no plural form• can use the article

the, but not a/an• verb is singular (is)

Sort the words into count and non-count nouns

Rice water Chicken Sauce

TomatoCorn Tortilla Lettuce

Lime Beef Avocado Sour cream

Chip Soda Milk Taco

This slide is making me hungry…

Quantifiers(any word that adds an amount to a noun)

Use with count nouns• few • many • several

Use with non-count nouns• a little • much • a great deal of

Use with both kinds of nouns • some • enough • a lot of • any

Add an appropriate quantifier to each sentence1. Can you add ________ rice to my plate?2. We have ________ homework tonight.3. I don’t have _______ mechanical pencils.4. Get out __________ pieces of paper.5. I didn’t bring _______water for my trip.6. There were _________ bees at the picnic.7. We only have ________ time to work on this

project.8. There weren’t ________ forks on the table.9. There are __________ large cities in Oregon.10. Did you get __________ sleep last night?