2 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar for ESL Learners- Dr. Blanchard
- our school
Rewrite each noun, capitalizing the proper nouns.- glass
- rocky mountains
- mexico
- flowers
- bus
- the store
- new york times
- roberto
- professor romano
- my books
Nouns can be used as the subject of a sentence. The subject is the word that is performing the
action in the sentence. The subject can be a proper noun or a common noun, and it can be sin-
gular or plural:
Juanitais a friend of mine.
The boyslike to play soccer.
Where is the school?Nouns can also be used as direct objects. The direct object in a sentence is the noun that receives
the action of the verb. To find the direct object in a sentence do three things:- Find the subject of the sentence.
- Find the verb in the sentence.
- Ask whom or what with the subject and the verb.
Look at these sample sentences:
“Sara likes my brother.” “The girls find a book.”- subject Sara 1. subject girls
- verb likes 2. verb find
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