Name that Noun
Concrete vs. Abstract
Proper Noun Power
Mixed Bag
Noun Challenge
100

Name the noun type of the bolded word

The puppy chased the ball across the yard

What is Concrete?

100

Abstract or Concrete

The lighthouse guided the ships safely toward the harbor

What is concrete?

100

Identify the proper noun

We visited chicago during spring break

What is Chicago?

100

Find the concrete noun

Emma brought her backpack to school 

What is backpack?

100

Complete the sentence by adding one concrete noun:

The ______ disappeared before I could find it.

What is a concrete noun?

200

Name the abstract nouns

"Honesty is important in every friendship"

What is honesty?

What is friendship?

200

Which noun is abstract?

a. thunder b. safety c. Everest d. rough

What is safety?

200

Identify the proper nouns

Mrs. Rivera ordered a pizza from Domino's after school.

Who is Mrs. Rivera? What is Domino's?

200

Find at the proper nouns

The fear in maya's voice disappeared when her brother returned from california with the puppy she had been waiting for.

What is Maya? What is California?

200

Replace the abstract noun with a concrete noun while keeping the sentence logical:

The fear disappeared when the lights came on.

What is a concrete noun?

300

Name the proper and common nouns

Jordan visited the museum after schoool

What is Jordan?

What is Museum? What is school?

300

Identify the abstract nouns

The memory of her childhood home brought comfort to Elena.

What is memory? What is comfort?

300

Identify the proper noun and the common nouns

My favorite book, the lightning thief takes place partly in a city.

Proper Noun: What is The Lightning Thief

Common Noun: city

300

Find the proper and abstract nouns

Marcus showed great patience while building the airplane 

What is Marcus?

What is patience?

300

Rewrite the sentence by replacing the underlined noun with an abstract noun while keeping the meaning logical:

The thing she showed during the competition impressed everyone.

What is courage? Determination? Kindness?

400

Identify all three nouns 


The curiosity of maya led her to explore the cave. 

What is curiosity? What is Maya? What is cave?

400

Give me the abstract noun

The hallway was packed after the bell, but Ava noticed a student had dropped his papers. She stopped to help even though she was already late to class.


What is kindness? What is helpfulness?

400

Identify the proper noun and common noun

On Saturday, my aunt took to the museum before we walked around Union Market.

Proper Nouns: What is Saturday? What is Union Market?


Common Nouns: What is museum? 



400

Find at least three different noun types

jordan felt excitement when the coach announced that the team would travel to boston.

What is Boston and Jordan?

What is excitement?

What is coach and team?

400

Rewrite the sentence by replacing the common noun with a proper noun:

The city was crowded during the festival.

What is New York city? or any specific city

or any specific festival

500

Identify the nouns

Dr. Martinez admired the courage of the firefighters who rescued the children.

What is courage? Who is Dr. Martinez? What is firefighters? What is children?

500

Sort the abstract nouns from the concrete nouns

The determination of the athletes helped them overcome the exhaustion they felt after the marathon.

Abstract: What is determination and exhaustion? 

Concrete: What is athletes and marathon?

500

Turn the common noun into a proper noun

The car drove up the mountain steadily.

What is Toyota? or any car

What is Grand Canyon? Or any famous mountain

500

Find all the nouns

After Mr. Thompson announced that our class had won the competition, pride filled the students as they carried their trophy back to Jefferson Middle School.

What is Mr. Thompson and Jefferson Middle School?

What is pride?

What is competition, class, students, and trophy?

500

Write an original sentence containing 

a concrete noun, an abstract noun, a proper noun and a common noun

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