1. Flytraps !Plants That Bite Back 1
Grammar Practice 1- Common Nouns
By Caroline Class: 511 Name: _______ Number: ____
A noun is a word that names a person, place, thing or an idea.
Underline each noun.
1. The bladderwort had little yellow flowers sticking out of the
water.
2. Under the water there were tangled stems with many tiny
bubbles on them.
3. Plants that eat animals are called carnivorous plants.
4. Each bladder had a trap door shut tight, with little trigger hairs
around it.
5. To set its traps, a bladderwort sucks the water out of its bladders.
6. I had to climb a mountain and walk through all the boggiest,
mossiest places.
7. They were sundews and the shiny parts were sticking like honey
8. When a bug gets stuck on a sundew, the leaf slowly curls up
around it.
8. The soft parts of the bug are dissolved by chemicals and eaten.
9. The seeds weren’t just for ordinary sundews, though.
10. I sowed them in a pot of moss and covered it glass.
11. My sundews died because I accidentally put fertilizer in the
water.
12. Venus flytraps are rare now because people have drained many
of the marshes where they once lived.
13.Small insects such as ants can escape from a Venus flytrap-
they’re not big enough to be worth eating.
14.When the leaf is fully closed, it begins to dissolve its victim.
15. The next plant I got was a cobra lily.
16 .It had leaves like funnels ,with a slippery rim and a little pool at
the bottom.