This document provides information about nouns, including definitions and examples. It explains that nouns name people, places, things, and animals. Proper nouns begin with capital letters. Sometimes nouns name a single thing and other times they name multiple things. The document then discusses the different types of nouns, including subject nouns, predicate nouns, direct objects, indirect objects, objects of prepositions, appositives, direct address, and object complements. It concludes with examples of using capital letters for titles when used with people's names.

2. Let’s
Review

3. Nouns are words that
name people, places,
things, and animals.

4. Some nouns name a
special person, place,
thing, or animal. These
nouns are called
proper nouns, and
they begin with a capital
letter.
Tennessee York City
New Sam

5. The words for the days of the
week, the months of the
year, and holidays begin with
a capital letter.
Christmas Friday
Sunday
Valentine’s Day
Thursday
February
April
November

6. Sometimes nouns name
thing.
one
tree
Sometimes nouns name
than one thing.
trees
more

7. This week we are
working on being
able to find the
nouns in sentences.
Let’s practice this.

8. Honey bees live in a hive.
Which word or words in
the sentence are nouns?

9. Squirrels like to eat nuts.
Which word or words in
the sentence are nouns?

10. A woodpecker lives in a
tree.
Which word or words in
the sentence are nouns?

11. Ants and bees work hard.
Which word or words in
the sentence are nouns?

12. Bugs can help flowers.
Which word or words in
the sentence are
nouns?

13. 1. SUBJECT OF THE SENTENCE
- a noun is used as the subject
- what is being talked about
in a sentence
Examples:
 Father works in a farm.
 The lady walks gracefully.
 Miss Cruz goes to school early

14. 2. PREDICATE NOUN
-a noun that is usually after the
linking verb
Examples:
 Mario is a teacher.
 My friend is an architect.
 Rosario was a valedictorian.
 The prince became a beggar.
 The supervisor is Janice.
 They are my friends.

15. 3. DIRECT OBJECT
-a noun that receives the action of the
verb.
Examples:
 The girl lost the bag.
 The robber killed the policeman.
 The boy found a book.
 She likes watermelon.
 Yesterday, we planted rice.
 Jack slammed the door.

16. 4. INDIRECT OBJECT
-a noun that receives the
secondary action of the verb
Examples:
 The secretary gave her boss a gift.
 I bought my grand daughter a new dress.
 The president gave Teresita a letter.
 Lani gave Leolan a new purse.
 The girl wrote her father a letter.

17. 5. OBJECT OF PREPOSITION
-a noun that serves the object of
preposition.(in, on, at, from, etc)
Examples:
 Three students are absent from the class.
 The children played under the tree.
 We stayed in the field.
 The bus came from Pampanga.
 She teaches us about English.

18. 6. AN APPOSITIVE
-a noun renaming or identifying the
person or thing first mentioned
Examples:
 Jose Rizal, the hero, was born in Calamba.
 My friend, an architect, has just arrived.
 We went to Baguio, the summer capital of
the Philippines.
 My brother Michael is six years old.

19. 7. DIRECT ADDRESS
- a name or word used in directly
addressing the person
Examples:
 Paolo, wake up.
 Mr. President, the conference room is now
ready for the meeting.
 The patient needs your immediate response,
doctor.
 The room, Jelaine, has to be cleaned.

20. 8. Object Complement
•An object complement is a word that
completes the meaning of a direct
object. It is used when the direct
object would not make complete sense
by itself.
Example:
I named my cat Garfield.

21. special titles
People often have
that show
respect for who they are or for the work they do.
When a person’s special title is written with their name,
use a capital letter at the beginning of the special title.
Let’s look at some special titles.
Officer Smith
Mr. Vance
Dr. Darby
Principal Forgety
Mrs. Ingle

22. *1. Our country, we love thee.
*2. Mahomet was an Arabian.
*3. My friends! alas, I have no friends.
*4. Are you a friend of Caesar?
*5. O, Robert! do not go!
*6. I, Daniel, saw a vision.
*7. Hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king.
*8. There came to this country a Jewish
banker.
*9. Dr. Green, the physician in the next
street, is a membei of our temperance
society.
*10. Fire! Call the engines.