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Target 1: Nouns

Task 3 (Your third piece of evidence of success)

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A. Underline the noun that is the subject and the noun that is the
object in each of the three sentences below.

1. Greg threw the ball.

1 point
2. Carefully, the dog buried the bone.

3. After ten minutes, George scored a goal.

B. Find your own evidence:

Select a piece of your written work from any subject.
1 point
Underline five nouns that are the subject of a sentence and
five nouns that are the object of a sentence.
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Summary: Nouns

 Nouns are the names of people, places and things.
They are also the names of things you can’t see like

anger, fear and strength.

 Proper nouns are the special names given to particular
people or things (e.g. Dr Smith, England). They begin
with a capital letter.
 Common nouns are general names given to people,

places or things (e.g. birds, book). They do not begin

with a capital letter.

 Nouns can be singular (one item) or plural (more than
one). We usually add an ‘s’ to a singular noun to change
it to a plural noun (e.g. one cat, two cats). However,
there are some exceptions to this (e.g. one child, two

children; one knife, two knives; one sheep, two sheep).

 Nouns are the subjects and objects of sentences.

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