English grammar explained in plain language simple enough to be understood.
Section A: Decide which word or words in each sentence below should be in italics.1. The warplane Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bombs in WWII. 2. The Pilgrims traveled to North America on a ship called the Mayflower.3. Columbus… Read more190. Practice With Italics
A noun is a word that names a person, a place, a thing, or an idea. When a noun names an actual person, we call it a proper noun. A proper noun must be capitalized. Your name is a proper… Read more191. Nouns are Naming Words – Proper Nouns
Common nouns name people, places, and things that don’t need to be capitalized. Proper nouns are names for actual people, actual locations and buildings. Common nouns are names for plain, unspecific people, places, and things. A proper noun is Chicago,… Read more192. Common Nouns
We know that nouns name people, places, and things. Nouns also name ideas.Nouns that name ideas are called abstract nouns. You can’t see an abstract noun. You can’t touch an abstract noun. They are not objects. They are ideas. Look… Read more193. Abstract Nouns Name Ideas
The -tion ending on a word signals that the word is a noun. We call -tion a suffix. Any word that ends in -tion is a noun. We can change a verb into a noun by adding -tion to the… Read more194. Verbs Become Nouns With -tion Ending
Section A: Find the proper noun in each sentence. 1. My new teacher is ms. jackson.2. She came to our town from largo, florida.3. My friend sam sits next to me in class.4. We are taking a field trip to… Read more195. Practice With Nouns
The person who does the action in a sentence is the subject of the sentence. A proper noun often acts as the subject of a sentence. In these sentences, a proper noun is the subject of the sentence:Mary threw the… Read more196. A Noun Can Be the Subject of a Sentence
A direct object receives action from the verb. To put that another way, the direct object gets acted upon. Look at these sentences. The direct object in each sentence is the dark bolded word.Notice that each dark bolded word is… Read more198. The Direct Object is a Noun
An indirect object is one of those grammar pieces that seems confusing, but I can explain it in a simple way. The trick is to see the connection between an indirect object and a prepositional phrase. Here is a sentence… Read more199. Indirect Objects are Always Nouns