Language Arts Grade Four

Unit One, Lesson Three: Nouns


  1. pain
  2. stain
  3. train
  4. rain
  5. drain
  6. hibernation
  7. migration
  8. oxygen
  9. climate
  10. animals
  1. lizards
  2. turtles
  3. snakes
  4. shelter
  5. water
  6. dessert
  7. desert
  8. cactus
  9. mountains
  10. arid
Nouns

A couple words on this list can be used as nouns or as other parts of speech.


    The dead fly went down the drain.

    It took five minutes to drain the bathtub.

In the first example drain is used as a noun. In the second example it is a verb. Stain can be used in similar ways.

   The juice will stain the carpet.

   The stain will be hard to eliminate.

In the first example stain is used as a verb. In the second example it is used as a noun.

The word arid is usually used as an adjective as in:


   The desert is very arid.


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