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San José State University

Nouns: The Basics

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Need to work on nouns with your class? This handout breaks down nouns and provides twelve sentences for noun identification practice. Help English language learners recognize nouns with the examples given on this handout.
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San José State University

Possessive Apostrophes

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
A great review of possesive nouns and how to add apostrophes. Clearly demonstrating where to place the apostrophe for different nouns, the resource also notes some tricky exceptions. Reinforce the concept with a little practice putting...
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Other

K12 Reader: Possessive Nouns

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Take a look at examples of possessive nouns, both singular and plural.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Possessive Forms

For Students 9th - 10th
As you learn possessive forms, you will also learn about gerunds, present participles, compound nouns and more. This is a very complete resource tool for this subject.
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English Plus+

Plural Possessives

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses the correct and incorrect usage of apostrophes to show possession with plural nouns.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: William Strunk on the Possessive Singular

For Students 9th - 10th
William Strunk Jr.'s "Elements of Style" on the creation of possessive singular nouns. Provided by Bartleby.com
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Grammar quizzes.com: Possessive Nouns: Indicating Possession

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A series of carts containing rules and examples of possessives including singular and plural common nouns, proper nouns, inanimate nouns, days and holidays, and numbers and letters. A fourteen-question practice exercise follows the...
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English Plus+

Grammar Slammer's Apostrophes Showing Possession

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses the correct and incorrect usage of apostrophes to show possession and examples are provided. Note that links are provided at the bottom of the page for other specific uses of the apostrophe.
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Other

English Grammar 101: Possessive Nouns

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Online grammar lesson gives an explanation of possessive nouns with follow-up practice exercises. Immediate feedback is provided.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Plural Forms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good explanation of Plural Forms for the student. Site also offers a quiz at the end. L.11-12.2b Spelling
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abstract Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th
The composition of a noun is more than just a person, place or thing. Use this resource to study examples of nouns and their many uses.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Possessive Pronoun and Apostrophe

For Students 9th - 10th
This Purdue Online Writing Lab article explains the three uses of the apostrophe.
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Get It Write

Get It Write: Making Proper Names Plural but Not Possessive

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial explains how to make your last name plural when sending greetings from your entire family (or anytime you are talking about your entire family.) This is a very common grammatical problem, and it is explained clearly here....
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Cases of Nouns and Pronouns

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this writing and grammar tutorial, learn how to distinguish and use nouns and pronouns in English and whether they are subjective, nominative, possessive, or objective.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Apostrophes

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource looks at the three main uses of apostrophes: to take the place of deleted letters; to show possession; and to show plurals of letters, numbers, symbols, abbreviations and words used as words.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Apostrophe Rules

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on the rules for the uses and misuses of the apostrophe including contractions and omissions, possessive nouns, possessive pronouns, how to write joint possession, plurals, apostrophes with surrounding punctuation, and...
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Possesives Examples

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Resource provides an explanation and examples of possessive nouns.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

University of Victoria: Elc Study Zone: Irregular Plurals of Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A chart containing information on how to form plurals with irregular nouns, and two exercises to practice the skills learned in the chart.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Compound Words

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this extensive website focused on compound words. Find out how they are used in writing. Don't miss out on this informative site.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: The Apostrophe

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on the three uses for apostrophes: forming possessives of nouns, forming plurals of lowercase letters, and showing omission of letters and provides examples of each.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Spelling Plurals With S or Es or Other Plurals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Spelling rules and examples for adding -s or -es to make the plural form of a word.
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Other

Grammar quizzes.com: Regular Plural Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A series of illustrated charts showing singular and plural forms of different types of regular plural nouns followed by twenty-two questions where students choose the correct plural form of each noun.
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Other

Grammar quizzes.com: Irregular Plural Nouns

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A series of illustrated charts showing singular and plural forms of different types of irregular plural nouns followed by fifteen questions where students choose the correct plural form of each noun.

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