Nouns can be singular as in lesson 16 or be plural in form. Plural means two or more. Plurals are formed by adding s, es, changing y to i and adding es, and with changes in spelling as in man becoming men. Examples: car, cars; fox, foxes; baby, babies, man, men.
Find the nouns in the following sentences. Some are plurals and some are not.
1. Computers are making work easier for secretaries.
2. Children always require great energies from parents.
3. Labors on farms take great effort by workers.
4. Alaina doesn’t like puzzles or mathematics.
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Here’s a acoustic guitar rendition of the C H R I S T M A S song from YouTube.

I stumbled across this song as it was sung by a “MySpace guy” on YouTube. His mother taught it to him when he was young. . . . I love its message, simple and pure. I found its lyrics on a cute webpage @ MyHomeWithGod.com.

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Divide the face of the clock into three parts with two lines so that the sum of the numbers in the three parts are equal.
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Underline the nouns in each of the sentences below.
1. Wallace waited at the corner for the bus.
2. When will the cricus come to Maryville?
3. Marjorie went to the library after school.
4. Did Benjamin find his pen?
5. Henry painted that picture for his father.
6. The red wheelbarrow was filled with rainwater.
7. The rainbow disapperared behind the mountain.
8. Tim and Judy packed sandwiches and fruit for the picnic.
9. A white cloud hid the moon.
10. Tina read the newspaper and the magazine.
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. . . just gotta love it. I found the Christmas Song by Alvin and the Chipmunks. It’s old. It came out when I was a kid. We had it on a “LP” record album and my younger sisters would play the Chipmunks album over and over as they danced around the living room! 🙂

A noun is a word that names something. A noun names a person, place, or thing.

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The sunrise is amazing this morning. There is a giant cloud canopy stretched halfway across the sky. It has a dominant black underlying. On the horizon, the sun is beginning to present itself. Fiery red, then orange, and then yellow reflect and greatly contrast with the dark clouds. A pretty accent of pastel peach amazingly mixes in with these powerful and bright colors. There is a bright white near the sun on the horizon. As they rising progresses, the black is still present but has varying shades of gray. . . magnificent!
What’s more, the backdrop of a clear pale blue sky adds to the early morning beauty and says the day is quickly coming. Soon all the magnificent colors will disappear the stretched out clouds will become a common white.

A noun is a word that names a person, place or thing. It also one of the eight parts of speech. Examples: man, city, book, courage. Nouns often follow words like a, an, and the.
Pick out all the nouns in these sentences.
1. The teacher told the student that a person should always be loyal.
2. People with perseverance will be successful in life.
3. I bought a new pen at the drugstore across the street.
4. The man said to the policeman that he had not seen the accident.
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