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Get It Write
Get It Write: Collective Nouns
Learn how to use collective nouns, when to use singular verbs with them, and when to apply logic to the grammar situation. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: What Is a Generic Noun?
This page discusses generic nouns, non-specific nouns such as in "a gang of boys," as compared to collective nouns such as "a pride of lions." Several examples of generic noun usage are provided.
abcteach
Abcteach: Noun Skill Sheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will find several worksheets for primary, elementary and middle school students identifying the role a noun or pronoun plays, collective nouns, diminutives, as well as definitions and...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Nouns
This page focuses on nouns including definitions, types of nouns (person, place, thing/idea), common vs proper nouns, types of common nouns (concrete, abstract, collective), nouns as subjects, nouns as objects, nouns as subjective and...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Nouns
A complete tutorial on identifying and using nouns that starts with identifying the nouns in "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music. Includes links to other noun grammar pages.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Plurals Often Treated as Singular
This video lesson focuses on words that appear plural but take a singular verb. It discusses the rules of subject-verb agreement, and then looks at three kinds of confusing words: indefinite pronouns, collective nouns, and misleading...
Other
What Are Collective Nouns? (With Examples)
This site provides a resource related to collective nouns. Numerous examples are provided, along with an multiple-choice interactive quiz.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Three Serendipitous Nouns
In this lesson, the book entitled A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink: What Is a Noun? (Words Are Categorical), written by Brian P. Cleary, is used as the mentor text. After learning the basic definition of noun, a person, place, thing, or...
TES Global
Blendspace: Nouns
An eight-part learning module with images, charts, links, exercises, and videos filled with explanations and examples of different types of nouns.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: All About Nouns
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a review of plural, collective, and abstract nouns. It starts off very basic and builds.
Government of Canada
Language Portal of Canada: Subject Verb Agreement With Collective Nouns
Learn about collective nouns and practice choosing the right verb form for the collective noun-subject in each sentence.
Scholastic
Scholastic: When Grammar Meets Art
Grammar lessons that involve kinesthetic games and art projects. Here is a lesson plan for teaching types of nouns through a partner exploration and a whole class art project. Let me show you just how fun grammar can be!
Other
Grammaropolis: The Nouns
This is a lesson in nouns including defining nouns, common, proper, concrete, abstract, compound, and collective nouns. It defines each type, shows its use in a sentence, and provides examples.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Cliffs Notes: Quiz: Collective Nouns
Take this six-question quiz to test your knowledge of collective nouns and the verbs they agree with. Once answers are submitted, correct and incorrect answers are shown and a percentage score is given.
TES Global
Blendspace: Noun Types Review
A six-part learning module with links images, websites, slides, and a video on different types of nouns including common, proper, collective, verbal, compound, abstract, concrete, countable, and uncountable.
Teacher Planet
Teacher Planet: My Teacher Tools: Teacher Friendly Flashcard Collection
Explore the teacher-friendly flashcard collection to access resources online and print for your classroom.
Other
Learning Farm: 2nd Grade Writing: Nouns Lesson
A brief engaging lesson to help students understand the process of making nouns plural or using collective nouns.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Collective Noun
Notes on collective nouns and how to use correct verbs and pronouns to agree with them.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Plurals
[Free Registration/Login Required] Investigate, collect and classify spelling patterns in pluralization; construct rules for regular spellings.
Other
Cingletree Learning: English Grammar 101: Collective Nouns
Practice subject-verb agreement by choosing the verb that agrees with each collective noun subject.
Other
Teach Ro: Collective Nouns and Verb Agreement Practice
Learn about collective nouns and practice choosing the right verb form for the collective noun subject in each sentence.
TES Global
Blendspace: Year 10 Parts of Speech Recap
This eleven-part learning module provides a fun review of the seven main parts of speech, as well as, concrete/abstract nouns, collective nouns, comparative/superlative adjectives and adverbs, and collective nouns. These are presented...
University of Washington
Mary Nell's Grammar Summaries
The University of Washington provides an excellent collection of grammar-related summaries. The collection includes material on verb tenses, agreement, noncount nouns, and many other topics.
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.k.1.c : Kindergarten English Language Arts
Here is a collection of common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.K.1.C. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. All worksheets are free to view, download, or print.
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