Subject: Grammar Practice

Topic- Nouns
What is a Noun?

The simplest definition of a noun is a thing and nouns are the

basic building blocks of sentences. These things can represent a
person, animal, place, idea, emotion- almost anything that you
can think of. Dog, Sam, love, phone, Chicago, courage and
spaceship are all nouns.

Noun Examples: Respect, faith, apple, peanut, motorcycle

Noun examples in the following sentences are in bold for easy

identification.

1. The boy and girl were holding hands as they crossed the
bridge on the way to town.

2. I love watching my cat play with the pink yarn.

3. It is raining! Everyone, grab your umbrella and rain hat and

watch out for the puddles!

Categories of Nouns:

There are several categories of nouns, and there can be an

overlap across the categories.

 Common Nouns: Name people, places of things that are not

specific.
Example: Woman, mountain, city, ocean, building, airline.

 Proper Nouns: Name specific people, places or things.

Example: Walt Disney, Mount Everest, North sea, England,
Fluffy, Sun country.
  Abstract Nouns: name nouns that you can’t perceive with your
five senses.
Example: Love, wealth, happiness, pride, religion, history.

 Concrete Nouns: Name nouns that you can perceive with your
five senses.
Example: House, ocean, Uncle Mike, bird, banana, flowers.

 Countable Nouns: name nous that you can count.

Example: Bed, cat, movie, train, country, book, phone.

 Uncountable Nouns: name nouns that you can’t count.

Example: Milk, rice, snow, rain, water, food, music.

 Compound Nouns: are made up of two or more words.

Example: New York, photograph, sunlight, snowflake, pigtails,
tablecloth.

 Collective Nouns: refer to things or people as a unit.

Example: Bunch, team, group, family, band, village, team.

 Singular Nouns: name one person, place, thing or idea.

Example: Cat, sock, ship, hero, monkey, baby, match.

 Plural Nouns: name more than one person, place, thing or idea.
Example: Cats, socks, ships, heroes, monkeys, babies, matches.

Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the given nouns for the
following exercise. Use each noun only one time.

Chair job Experience Information Hair

Luggage Progress Furniture Permission Work

1. I don’t have much _________. just two small bags.

2. They are going to tell you all you want to know. They are going to
give you a lot of _________.

3. There is room for everybody to sit down. There are a lot of

_________.

4. We have no __________, not even a bed or a table.

5. What does Alan look like? He’s got a long beard and very short
_________.

6. Carla’s English is very bad. She must make __________.

7. George is unemployed. He’s looking for a __________.

8. If you want to leave work early, you have to ask for ________.

9. I don’t think Ann will get the job. She hasn’t got enough _______.

10. Shakespeare’s __________ are wonderful.