Capital and Noun Exercises I. Underline the letters that should be CAPITALIZED. Then rewrite the words in the brackets. 1. peter and i are good friends. ( ) 2. we are going to chicago during our summer vacation. ( ) 3. there is an interesting football game on sunday. ( ) 4. jason lives on thomson avenue. ( ) 5. january is the first month of the year. ( ) II. The following are phrases on the signposts. Can you find the mistakes? Write the names correctly. hopkins hotel lincoln school orchard street newton road botanic gardens national library shea stadium III. Read the following passage. Write the missing collective nouns in the blank spaces. Remember that sometimes there are two words you can use. Mom took Kate, Rudy and Derrick to the zoo. The zoo was very busy. A ____ of people had gathered round the monkeys. One of the monkeys had a ____ of bananas. Watching the monkey eat made the children feel hungry. Mom took a ____ of bread and some ____ of cheese out of the picnic hamper and everyone made sandwiches. After eating the sandwiches, the children had two ____ of chocolate each. Rudy wanted to give one piece to a monkey, but the zookeeper gave Rudy a very useful ____ of advice. “Monkeys may look friendly, but sometimes they are very fierce,” he said. IV. Read the following passage. The possessive nouns are missing. Write the correct possessive form of the nouns in parentheses. The first one has been done for you. Peter is spending the day at Tom's (Tom) house. Peter likes Tom's family. He especially likes (Tom's mom) cooking! The boys play lots of games together. (Tom) sister doesn't like (Tom and Peter) games.She is playing by herself. Sometimes the (boys) games become so noisy that Mom tells them to go and play in the garden. (Tom) dog is in the garden, lying in the sunshine. Tom wants to play with the dog, but Peter is afraid of the (dog) big teeth and sharp claws. At 7 o'clock, (Peter) dad arrives in his car to take Peter home. Tom says he likes (Peter's dad) new car. (Peter) dad says that he'll take Tom for a ride in it sometime.