Common Nouns
"Paul likes to ride his bike." Name the common noun.
What is bike?
"Sally went to the store." Tell the proper noun.
Who is Sally?
"Lucy and Jenny love to eat cucumbers and carrots." Name the plural nouns in this sentence.
What are cucumbers and carrots?
Name the abstract noun(s). The child's laughter makes me happy.
What is happy?
We ate a bunch of grapes for our after-school snack. Identify the collective noun.
What is bunch?
Jeff wanted to go to the park with his friend Mike, but his mom made him stay at home and finish his homework first. Tell the number of common nouns in this sentence.
What is five; park, friend, mom, home, homework?
Although born in Mexico, Jorge lives in Florida. Tell the number of proper nouns in this sentence.
What is three; Mexico, Jorge, and Florida?
Dad has screwdrivers, hammers, and wrenches in his toolbox. Name the plural nouns.
What are screwdrivers, hammers, and wrenches?
John lost a tooth last week. Name the concrete nouns.
What are John and tooth?
Dad shuffled the deck of cards before we played the game. Identify the collective noun.
What is deck?
The astronomer spent many nights watching the moon and the stars. Name the common nouns.
What are astronomer, nights, moon, and stars?
Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain on the planet Earth. Name the proper nouns.
What are Mt. Everest and Earth?
Tell which word is a plural noun. 1. ruler 2. jogged 3. puppies 4. Tootsie Roll 5. jury
What are puppies and jury?
The child hurt his foot and ran to the woman for help last Tuesday. Name the number of abstract nouns.
What is two; help and Tuesday?
The principal ate lunch with the second-grade class. Name the collective noun in this sentence.
What is class?
My awesome daughter made this PowerPoint presentation for me, so I am going to give her twenty dollars. Name the common nouns.
What are daughter, presentation, and dollars?
Tell the number of proper nouns in this sentence. The young boy ate a lollipop, a chocolate bar, and a marshmallow.
What is none?
The deer walked onto the green field. Tell which word is plural.
What is deer?
Name the abstract noun in the sentence. The teacher exhibited patience as he taught the children.
What is patience?
The crowd cheered on the football team. Name the collective noun(s).
What are crowd and team?
Tell how many common nouns are in the sentence. 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 6; beach, vacation, north, time, snowboarding, and skiing?
Thomas johnson went to a play in los Angeles, california to see his friend, martha. Tell which words should be capitalized to make them proper nouns.
What are Johnson, Los, California, and Martha?
Happiness is hard to find. Name the plural noun.
What is none?
Tell which word(s) is (are) abstract nouns. 1. fear 2. beauty 3. tolerance 4. shade 5. taste
What is all of them?
We ordered french fries as a side for our hamburgers. Name the compound noun.