Next level parts of speech—nouns! (See the “intro” to nouns episode here!)
Today’s episode about nouns covers the following:
- Person, place, thing, idea
- Two kinds
- 1. Common (any)
- 2. Proper (formal—we capitalize the formal names)
- Possessive—to possess means to own
- 1. Pronouns—never ‘ for personal possessives
- 2. Nouns—always use ‘ for possessive nouns
- Showing possession to nouns
- 1. ____belongs to _____
- 2. Write the owner first (don’t even think about possession when you write the owner)
- 3. Say, “The bowl belongs to the dog. Write the word dog. Hmmmm…dog doesn’t end in S, so I need apostrophe-s (dog’s). “ OR
- 4. Say, “The handle belongs to the glass. Write the word glass. Hmmmm…glass DOES end in S, so I need apostrophe-s (glass’)
- Nouns are not second grade skills!
- 1. Talking heads
- 2. Give a talk
- 3. He will talk at noon.
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