Megastars! A Celebrity-Based Parts-Of-Speech And Diagramming Program for Grade 4-8 by Hayes School Publishing – H-ME103R

Jim’s world fell apart one day in 1978. His father lost his job and had to sell the family home. The Carreys all took jobs at a tire-rim factory. Jim’s “fun times” came to an end. He soon found himself exhausted after sweeping floors all night. Jim remembers, “All I wanted was sleep after pulling eight hours in the factory.” Unable to keep up in school, the one-time straight-A student dropped out at sixteen.

The family members hated their work, especially Jim. (“It was awful and monotonous. I wanted to scream.”) Later, the Carreys managed to save some money and leave factory work.

Nouns – Jim Carrey

A noun is the name of a person, place or thing.

A common noun names any one of a class of persons, places or thing. Common nouns begin with lowercase (small) letters.

man city film

A proper noun names one particular person, place or thing. Proper nouns are capitalized.

Jim Carrey Toronto The Mask

Be careful! A word may be a noun in one sentence but not another. For example, can you name the common noun in this sentence?

Jim Carrey is a comic.
Did you choose “comic” as the common noun? That’s right!
Now, name the common noun in this sentence:

Jim Carrey is a comic actor.

Did you name “actor” as the common noun? Right again! In the sentence above, “comic” works as a describing word called an adjective. (We’ll do adjectives later.)

Let’s see how well you can do. Underline the words that are nouns in the list below.

best
floor
school
exhausted
all
screamed
father
poverty
impressions
Las Vegas
successful
Hollywood

You were correct if you underlined floor, school, father, poverty, impressions, Las Vegas and Hollywood.
(All of these nouns are common nouns except for Las Vegas and Hollywood.)

ANSWER KEY

Page 4. Assignment 1

1. home (CN), Jim (PN), clown (CN). 2. Percy Carrey (PN), son (CN). 3. Jim (PN), school (CN). 4. people (CN). 5. customers (CN), Yuk Yuk’s (PN), Jim’s (PN), humor (CN). 6. Percy Carrey (PN), job (CN). 7. Jim (PN), floors (CN), factory (CN). 8. school (CN). 9. Carreys (PN), work (CN), factory (CN). 10. family (CN), months (CN). 11. Jim (PN), California (PN), career (CN). 12. Comedy Store (PN), Hollywood (PN). 13. Jim Carrey (PN), impressions (CN), Las Vegas (PN). 14. Hollywood (PN), lessons (CN). 15. The Duck Factory (PN), program (CN). 16. In Living Color (PN), Jim (PN), man (CN). 17. check (CN), future (CN). 18. success (CN), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (PN).

Page 4 Assignment 2
Jim Carrey (PN), student (CN), clown (CN), student (CN), dropout (CN), times (CN), life (CN), James Eugene Carrey (PN), youngest (CN), children (CN), life (CN), Ontario, Canada (PN), 1962 (CN), boy (CN), home (CN), Jim’s (PN), father (CN), Jim (PN), Percy Carrey (PN), others (CN), ham (CN), pig (CN), school (CN), Jim (PN), loner (CN), friends (CN), school (CN), things (CN), home (CN), people (CN), school (CN), Percy (PN), Jim (PN), stage (CN), night (CN), Yuk Yuk’s (PN), Toronto (PN), club (CN), people (CN), Jim’s (PN), world (CN), day (CN), 1978 (CN), father (CN), job (CN), home (CN), Carreys (PN), jobs (CN), factory (CN), Jim’s (PN), times (CN), end (CN), floors (CN), night (CN), Jim (PN), sleep (CN), hours (CN), factory (CN), school (CN), student (CN), members (CN), work (CN), Jim (PN), Carreys (PN), money (CN), work (CN), jobs (CN), poverty (CN), Jim (PN), camper (CN), months (CN), Jim (PN), 1979 (CN), seventeen-year-old (CN), Yuk Yuk’s (PN), time (CN), audience (CN), laughter (CN), Jim (PN), school (CN), California (PN), 1981 (CN), Hollywood (PN), star (CN) club (CN), Comedy Store (PN), Jim (PN), Las Vegas (PN), $200,000 (CN), year (CN), impressions (CN), people (CN), Jim (PN), more (CN), 1981 (CN), Hollywood (PN), lessons (CN), comedy (CN), The Duck Factory (PN), life (CN), shop (CN), shows (CN), Jim (PN), roles (CN), movies (CN), male (CN), comedy (CN), In Living Color (PN), show (CN), hit (CN), Jim (PN), name (CN) television (CN), stardom (CN), reach (CN), 1987 (CN), Jim (PN), check (CN), $10 million (CN), Thanksgiving (PN), 1995 (CN), success (CN), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (PN), Jim’s (PN), winner (CN), property (CN), salary (CN), millions (CN), films (CN), The Mask (PN), Dumb and Dumber (PN), Batman Forever (PN), Ace Ventura II (PN), The Cable Guy (PN), Liar Liar (PN), The Truman Show (PN), Man on the Moon (PN), others (CN), Jim Carrey (PN), $20 million (CN), movie (CN), 1990s (CN), fame (CN), sadness (CN), Percy Carrey (PN), 1994 (CN), funeral (CN), Jim (PN), check (CN), casket (CN), day (CN), Jim (PN), father (CN), credit (CN), success (CN), something (CN), death (CN), Jim (PN), smile (CN), dreams (CN).

Page 8. Assignment 1

1. her (POS). 2. She (PER). 3. She (PER), it (PER), her (PER) 4. her (POS), her (POS). 5. her (POS), they (PER). 6. they (PER), her (PER). 7. She (PER), her (POS). 8. Her (POS), it (PER). 9. she (PER). 10. My (POS), her (PER). 11. She (PER), her (POS), their (POS). 12. her (POS), she (PER). 13. I (PER), You (PER). 14. She (PER), I (PER), She (PER). 15. This (DEM), her (POS). 16. She (PER), she (PER).

Page 8. Assignment 2
She (PER), she (PER), her (POS), I (PER), I (PER), she (PER), She (PER), she (PER), she (PER), She (PER), her (POS), her (POS), I (PER), this (DEM), her (PER), her (POS), She (PER), She (PER), It (PER), my (POS), me (PER), I (PER), my (POS), her (POS), She (PER), she (PER), she (PER), her (POS), you (PER), My (POS), She (PER), her (POS), It (PER), I (PER), She (PER), her (POS), she (PER), her (POS), she (PER), My (POS), It (PER), her (POS), mine (POS), Her (POS), her (PER), her (POS), I (PER), she (PER), she (PER), I (PER), she (PER), We (PER), your (POS), I (PER), their (PER), you (PER), I (PER), it (PER), She (PER), her (POS), I (PER), You (PER), She (PER), I (PER), I (PER), She (PER), herself (PER), I (PER), she (PER), it (PER), This (DEM), I (PER), I (PER), it (PER), she (PER), she (PER), herself (PER), she (PER), her (POS).