Language Development

The 1940s: Who? What? Where?

Nouns

A noun names a person, place, or thing.

Read Sentences

Say each sentence. Tell if each underlined noun is a person, a place, or a thing.

Bill Mauldin

Bill Mauldin

Ollie Stewart

Ollie Stewart

    Example
  • 1. Bill Mauldin is the name of a person.

  • 1. Bill Mauldin also recorded the events of World War II.

  • 2. While he was in the army in Italy, he drew cartoons of American soldiers.

  • 3. His pictures were often published in the newspaper Stars and Stripes.

  • 4. Ollie Stewart was a reporter.

  • 5. He was the first journalist from the newspaper Afro-American to go to the frontline in North Africa.

  • 6. He was also in France when the war ended there.

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Write the paragraph. Add the missing words.

awardnewspaperssoldiers
Japanphotographs

The photographer Joe Rosenthal took ___(7)___ during World War II. He was on an island in ___(8)___ when he took a famous picture of six American ___(9)___ lifting a flag. Many magazines and ___(10)___ printed the picture. Joe won an ___(11)___ for the picture.

Joe Rosenthal took this photo in Iwo Jima, Japan, in 1945.

Joe Rosenthal took this photo in Iwo Jima, Japan, in 1945.