collective nouns
Jon made a batch of cookies.
What is batch?
Did you get the mail from the mailbox?
What is mail?
Lilly gets up at sunrise to do her strecthing routine.
What is sunrise?
Rock's anger sometimes gets the best of him.
What is anger?
Tuck Everlasting is one of my favorite books.
What is books?
This noun is one word/noun made up by joining two or more words.
What is a compund noun?
The audience applauded wildly.
What is audience?
They like spinach and mushrooms on their pizza.
What is spinach?
Grab your jacket and lets head to the backyard.
What is backyard?
Maria tried to control her impatience.
What is impatience?
Her sculpture is beautiful.
What is sculpture?
This noun names any one of a class of people, places, things, or idea.
What is a common noun?
There was a cluster of stars in a distant nebula.
What is cluster?
Lets welcome our speaker with a round of applause.
What is applause?
Edison invented the light bulb.
What is light bulb?
Stan's tapping toes betrayed his nervousness.
What is nervousness?
Our experience at the beach was amazing.
What is beach?
This noun names something that can be perceived through any of the five senses?
What is a concrete noun?
Johnny plays the trumpet in the orchestra.
What is orchestra?
Rhea plays music while she paints.
The fire drill at our school this week went smoothly.
What is fire drill?
Gabrielle's sculptures show off her creativity.
What is creativity?
Honesty is very important to my dad.
What is dad?
This noun cannot be percieved through the senses.
What is an abstract noun?
The comic club holds a convention every year.
What is club?
Try adding butter to the dish.
What is butter?
My sister-in-law recently got her degree in teaching.
What is sister-in-law?
Alicia's greatest enjoyment comes from playing softball.
What is enjoyment?
My goal is to embrace change.
What is goal?
This noun names a specific person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a proper noun?
The Plaza Hotel staff maintains the highest standards.
What is staff?
I think Josh put too much flour in the cupcakes?
What is flour?
Sergio won the contest, and Hank was the runner-up.
What is runner-up?
Theo's feelings of exhaustion overwhelmed him.
What is exhaustion?
I admire the simplicity of how my neighbor lives.
What is neighbor?
This noun names things that cannot be counted.
What are non-count nouns?