Kinds of Nouns
Compound and Collective
Singular and Plural
Possessive Nouns
Appositives
100
Name all the proper nouns in the sentence. Every year some cyclists gather on a street in Massachusetts.
What is Massachusetts?
100
Which is a compound noun? items, storekeeper, shelves, morning
What is storekeeper?
100
belief
What is beliefs?
100
The book of Mrs. Moss
What is Mrs. Moss's books
100
Name the appositive. Mr. Benjamin, a construction engineer, is my neighbor.
What is a construction engineer
200
Name the concrete nouns in the sentence. There they catch a boat back to Boston.
What are boat and Boston?
200
Name the collective noun(s) in the sentence. Those interested in enrolling children may contact the committee.
What is committee?
200
woman
What is women?
200
the honks of the geese
What is the geese's honks
200
Combine the sentences by changing the second one into an appositive. One of my cousins talked about winter clothing. The cousin was Alfredo.
What is One of my cousins, Alfredo, talked about winter clothing.
300
Name the abstract nouns in the sentence. Teenagers often develop their own style of clothing.
What is style?
300
Name the compound noun(s) in the sentence. Rose Bentley, on the staff of Children's Cottage, expressed her delight to this newspaper.
What is Rose Bentley, Children's Cottage, and newspaper?
300
pass
What is passes?
300
the house of the Joneses
What is The Joneses' house
300
Name the appositive. Years ago young boys wore knickers, short pants.
What is short pants.
400
Which noun in parenthesis is a common noun and should NOT be capitalized? (Jenny) and (Peter) climbed three (Mountains) in (New Hampshire).
What is mountains?
400
Name the collective noun(s) in the sentence. A group of parents among the crowd applauded the decision.
What are group and crowd?
400
passer-by
What is passers-by?
400
the pet of her son-in-law
What is her son-in-law's pet
400
Combine the sentences by changing the second one into an appositive. Down keeps you very warm. Down is fluffy bird feathers.
What is Down, fluffy bird feathers, keeps you very warm.
500
Name the abstract nouns in the sentence. The riders have a great sense of accomplishment when they are finished.
What are sense and accomplishment?
500
Which noun is a collective noun? decision, rules, club, building
What is club?
500
crisis
What is crises?
500
the bat of Charles and Nick
What is Charles and Nick's bat
500
Combine the sentences by changing the second one into an appositive. For warmth, wool can be layered with another natural fabric. The fabric is cotton.
What is For warmth, wool can be layered with another natural fabric, cotton.
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