Kinds of Nouns
These are the nouns that can be found in this sentence.
What is Virginia, colony, and New World?
My family and I live in an old farmhouse.
These are the collective and compound nouns.
What is family (collective) and farmhouse (compound)?
The plural form for shampoo.
What is shampoos?
The monkey has a tail.
The possessive noun for this sentence.
What is a monkey's tail?
Ox.
The plural form of this noun.
What is oxen?
John Smith became the leader of the first settlement.
These are the nouns that can be found in this sentence.
What are John Smith, leader, settlement?
My family raises goats as well as some crops such as string beans and corn.
These are the collective and compound nouns.
What is family (collective), crops (collective), and string beans (compound)?
The plural form of valley.
What is valleys?
The eyes of a man
The possessive noun form of this statement.
What is the man's eyes?
This machine is a ___________. (concrete, common)
A noun that fits the description in parentheses.
Answers will vary.
Under his leadership, the community grew.
This is the abstract noun in the sentence.
What is leadership?
We barbecue chicken, grill potatoes, and serve corn on the cob and watermelon.
These are the compound nouns in the sentence.
What are corn on the cob and watermelon?
The plural form of guppy.
What are guppies?
The Rosses have two dogs.
The possessive noun form of this statement.
What is Rosses' dogs?
It was invented by __________. (concrete, proper)
A noun that fits the description in parentheses.
Answers will vary
The tiny seaside town had become a success.
These are the concrete and abstract nouns in the sentence.
What is town (concrete) and success (abstract)?
Then we divide up into teams and play softball until sunset.
These are the collective and compound nouns in the sentence.
What are teams (collective), softball (compound), and sunset (compound)?
What is vetoes?
The two goldfish have spots.
The possessive noun form of this statement.
They call the device a _________. (abstract, common)
A noun that fits the description in parentheses.
Answers will vary
Many inhabitants at Jamestown also expected failure.
These are the common and proper nouns in the sentence.
What is inhabitants (common), Jamestown (proper), and failure (abstract common)?
We hire a crew to help out with the heavy summer work.
This is the collective or compound noun of the sentence.
What is crew (collective)?
What are lunches?
The six deer have tails.
The possessive noun form of this statement.
What is deer's tails?
People praised the inventor's ____________. (abstract, common)
A noun that fits the description in parentheses.