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Date: ________________________
Grammar: Nouns 4 — Prepositions, Case, Proper Nouns, & Plurals
Case:
Subjective- These nouns do the action / verb. Ex: The boy threw the ball to Sue.
Objective- These nouns do one of two things:
 receive the action of the verb. Ex: The boy threw the ball to Sue.
 appear at end of prep. phrase. Ex: The boy threw the ball (to Sue.)
Possessive: These nouns show possession, or ownership. Ex: Tom’s team won.
Method to determine case:
1. Verb: Find the verb, or action word. Sentences may have multiple verbs.
2. Possessive: Locate apostrophes. Nouns with apostrophes are probably
possessive. Once you locate a noun with an apostrophe, check that it owns,
possesses or “has,” something else. This means it’s possessive. There may be
more than one possessive noun in a sentence, but sentences don’t have to
have possessive nouns.
Ex: Joe’s hat is yellow.
(Joe’s is possessive; Joe owns a yellow hat.)
3. Subjective: Ask who / what did the verb (action.) This noun is subjective.
Sentences must have at least one subjective noun, or subject. A sentence may
have more than one subject.
Ex: The cat played with yarn.
(Question: Who or what played? Answer: the cat.)
4. Objective: Take subject + verb, and then ask who / what. The answer is an
objective noun, or an object. This is called a direct object. There may be
more than one direct object in a sentence, but sentences don’t have to have
direct objects.
Ex: The batter hit the ball.
(Question: The batter hit who or what? Answer: the ball.)
5. Objective: All other nouns probably appear at the end of a prepositional
phrase (descriptive phrase). A prepositional phrase starts with a preposition
and ends with a noun, which is called the object of the preposition. The
phrase (group of words) describes a word outside the phrase. There may be
more than one object of the preposition, but sentences don’t have to have an
object of the prepostion.
Ex: Little Red Riding Hood went over the river and through the
woods to her grandmother’s house.
(Over the river, through the woods, and to her grandmother’s house
= prepositional phrases; all three phrases describe the verb went.)
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I. Directions: USE PENCIL. Fill in the blanks with 20 prepositions.
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II. Directions: USE PENCIL. Use the Method to Determine Case (see front) to
identify the case of each noun in the sentences below. Underline the verb(s). Label
the possessive noun(s) P; the subjective noun(s) S; and the objective noun(s) O. Put
parentheses around prepositional phrases and draw a line from the phrases to the
words they describe or the words to which the phrases “add information.”
1. As the painter’s son grabbed the paintbrush, the curator of the gallery gasped.
2. The captain of the team scored an amazing goal.
3. The birds on the Wilsons’ window ate from a feeder.
4. Kids in the back row screamed in appreciation for Kate’s performance.
5. Before Tom organized his locker, he put his binders, books, and pens on the floor.
6. The Wellingtons’ intelligence amazed the judges of the trivia contest
7. The buzz of the crowd deafened the athletes.
8. The workers on the side of the building hammered nails and scrubbed the bricks.
9. Nina’s sense of humor delights the boys at camp.
10. The dog in the back of the Reeds’ car barked at the Youngs’ kittens.
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III. Directions: USE PENCIL. For each of the following common nouns, name a related
proper noun. Capitalization and punctuation count.
1. poem
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2. short story
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3. novel
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4. movie
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5. newspaper article (real)
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6. song
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7. US state & its state capital ________________________________________________
8. mountain
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9. candidate for president
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10. leader of foreign country ________________________________________________
IV. Directions: USE PENCIL. Make each of the following nouns plural.
1. boy
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2. girl
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3. Smith
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4. ox
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5. child
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6. church
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7. box
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8. family
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9. deer
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10. criterion
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