Common and Proper Nouns
Is the following word a count or non-count noun?
Apples
Count
"Lucy and Jenny love to eat strawberries and milkshakes." What are the concrete nouns in this sentence?
What is strawberries and milkshakes
Find the collective nouns? This student liked how the bouquet of flowers smelled.
What is bouquet
The girl showed pride in her work. Identify the abstract noun(s).
What is pride
Jeff wanted to go to the park with his friend Mike, but his mom said no. How many common nouns are there in this sentence and what are they?
What is three ; park, friend, mom
Name 3 count nouns
Answer will vary
The little boy ran across the baseball field, skipped along the sidewalk, and stopped by the store to pick up some blueberries. What are the concrete nouns?
What is baseball, sidewalk, bluberries
Lucy gave the litter of kittens a jar of cookies to eat.
What is litter, jar?
Love and hatred are the opposite of each other. What is (are) the abstract noun(s)?
What is love and hatred
The teacher spent many days teaching about the moon and the stars. What are the common nouns?
What is teacher, days, moon, stars
Describe the difference between a count and non-count noun. Give examples.
Answer will vary
Which word is a abstract noun? 1. ice cream 2. kindergarten 3. headache 4. hammer
What is headache
The pack wolves were chased by the swarm of bees. The school of fish swam under the water to escape.
What are pack, swarm, school?
A trait that all dogs show is loyalty What is (are) the abstract noun(s)?
What is loyalty
Mary made this powerpoint for me, so I am going to give her twenty dollars. What is the proper noun?
What is Mary
Name 2 non-count and 2 count nouns in the sentence.
"Gavin had patience when trying to help his friend with an issue. The boys worked together to find a solution. "
Patience NC
Friend C
Issue NC
Boys C
Solution NC
She lost her bag and her book on the field. What are the concrete nouns?
What is bag, book, field?
The teacher gave the class a bunch of grapes, and deck of cards to relax in recess time.
What is bunch, class, deck?
Change these singular nouns to the plural form?
boy, man, box
What is boys, men, boxes
Identify the proper nouns below. John wants to go to the beach in California for summer vacation, but Rose wants to go up north and spend her time snowboarding and skiing.
What is John, California
Name 2 non-count and 3 count nouns
The man gave his food to the little cats. They had lots of thankfulness. Then a big, fat mouse came and ate the food all up. He had a feast! Then there was a lot of sadness.
man C
food C
cats C
thankfulness NC
mouse C
feast C
sadness NC
The whole idea started with a parent who wanted to do a fundraiser for the snowboarding team at Nevada Union. What is the abstract noun?
What is idea
Name five collective nouns
What is _______________