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Nouns
3rd Grade
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Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.11.D
edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
(i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement;
(ii) past, present, and future verb tense;
(iii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;
(iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
(v) adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner;
(vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases;
(vii) pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases;
(viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences;
(ix) capitalization of official titles of people, holidays, and geographical names and places;
(x) punctuation marks, including apostrophes in contractions and possessives and commas in compound sentences and items in a series; and
(xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
3rd Grade Writing - Nouns Lesson
Nouns
A
noun
is a person, place, thing, animal, or idea.
Nouns can be
SINGULAR
or
PLURAL
.
Singular
means
one
.
Example:
teacher
beach
diary
wolf
foot
Plural
means
more
than
one
.
Example:
teacher
s
beach
es
diar
ies
wol
ves
f
ee
t
There are other
irregular
plurals
:
Example:
child → child
ren
cactus → cact
i
person → pe
ople
Nouns can be
COMMON
or
PROPER
.
Common
nouns are
general
.
Example:
boy
city
month
dog
Common
nouns
begin with
lowercase
letters.
Proper
nouns are
specific
.
Example:
Andrew
Dallas
August
Rover
Proper
nouns
begin with
capital
letters.
❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ ❋
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