Unit 1
Language: common and proper nouns
Nouns are words which name things, people and places. I saw a girl . I went to school . These are common nouns – names which are not special names.
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Find six common nouns in this paragraph.
The water was brown. Enormous branches were being carried along like boats. Ben gazed as old tyres, a cart and what looked like a tree rushed by.
Proper nouns are the names of special places, people or things. Proper nouns begin with capital letters. Proper nouns may contain more than one word. I saw Janine . I go to Bay Street Primary School.
2 Find four proper nouns in the story, ‘Rushing River’.
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Write out this paragraph. • Underline all the nouns. • Begin all the proper nouns with capital letters. On monday, at st. mary’s primary school, joshua and sara were talking about the river. They had not seen it. mr. booth asked ben to tell the children about it. He described the branches and the tyres in the water.
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• Exercise 3 extension: Students can be asked to write a note to their parents about a forthcoming school event. Demonstrate correct writing of names and addresses (home and school) using capitals and punctuation correctly.
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