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Assignment One, Part A 1. Without using any examples in the above lesson or this assignment, make a list of twenty common nouns. Table Chair Couch Television Lamp Shelf Basket Window Puzzle Laptop Computer School Office Theater Restaurant Kitchen Oven Refrigerator Sink Toilet 2. Without using any examples in the above lesson or this assignment, make a list of twenty proper nouns. Maine Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island New Hampshire New York Vermont Pennsylvania New Jersey Maryland Delaware Virginia West Virginia Tennessee Mississippi Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Florida Arkansas 3. Without using any examples in the above lesson or this assignment, make a list of twenty collective nouns. Force Congregation Troup Platoon Brigade Cavalry Department Board Battalion Precinct Council Staff Fleet Club Organization Code Program Couple Body Site 4. Without using any examples in the above lesson or this assignment, make a list of twenty compound nouns. Coffee shop Coffee Table Love seat Surround Sound System Video game Dish Washer Watermelon Football Baseball Basketball Dance shoe Tap shoe Swimsuit Wet-suit Livingroom Classroom Bathroom Dining-room Screwdriver Bookshelf 5. Mark the nouns in the following sentence in blue, and identify the types of nouns they are. Yesterday (common abstract noun), three of our (plural possessive pronoun) youth (collective noun) were in a terrible auto accident (open space compound noun). 6. Mark the nouns in the following sentence in blue, and identify the types of nouns they are. Susan Garrison (Proper noun) married Mr. Joe Brown (Proper noun) in the First Baptist Church (Proper noun) on Conner Street (Proper noun). 7. Mark the nouns in the following sentence in blue, and identify the types of nouns they are. Floating balloons (common noun) were everywhere inside the large pink ballroom (closed or solid compound noun). 8. Mark the nouns in the following sentence in blue, and identify the types of nouns they are. Five beautiful fairy princesses (open compound noun) flew high above the treetops (common noun) and swooped down into my backyard (closed compound noun). Assignment One, Part B Please Note: You may use the pronouns listed in this lesson for questions 9 through 12, but be sure you create your own unique sentences. 9. Write three sentences using three different Objective Personal Pronouns. The dog licked me. The dog licked you. The dog licked him. 10. Write three sentences using three different Subjective Personal Pronouns. I went home You went home He went home 11. Write two sentences using a Demonstrative Pronoun in each. This toy is broken. Those trees are tall. 12. Write three sentences using three different Possessive Personal Pronouns. The car is mine The toys are yours The ball is his. 13. Without using any examples in the above lesson or this assignment, make a list of ten Indefinite Pronouns. Any Anyone Anybody Anything All Another Each Every Everybody Everyone 14. What questions do nouns and pronouns answer? Who? What? When? Where? Lesson One Story Project Instructions 1. Add your Story Project to your Lesson One static item in your port.. 2. Identify all of the nouns in the story with blue, and all of the pronouns with teal. Do this for every noun and pronoun in the entire story. 3. Submit your coded story with your Lesson One Assignments as a b-item link in our forum.. Lesson One Story Project: The Lion and The Mouse Once when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him. "Pardon, O King," cried the little Mouse: "forgive me this time, I shall never forget it: who knows but what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days?" The Lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him, that he lifted up his paw and let him go. Some time after the Lion was caught in a trap, and the hunters who desired to carry him alive to the King, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him on. Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in which the Lion was, went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts. "Was I not right?" said the little Mouse. |