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Nouns
nouns.
nouns and proper
nouns: common
here are two main types of
Common Nouns
called common nouns.
Words for people, places and things are
common nouns are
words for things.
These
truth
chair hammer bicycle calculator
ruler
table saw ship television
pen truck
axe
crayons sofa fridge
drill ferry
pencil loyalty train
cooker
lodder
book lamp bus computer
lawnmower
dictionary carpet printer
spade
laziness
courage telephone
names for
animals. Notice that special
nouns are words for
These common
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Nounu Proper Neuns
These common nouns are words for people who do certain thing
sgilor gardener
inger monoger police oficer
dancer secretary pilot
driver plumber
artiet teucher
writer
farmer
photographer doctor
frwnd clerk
magiclan dentist
tochnician
brothar
athlete lawyer
Proper Nouns
nouns. They
The names of particular people, places
and things are proper
always begin wlth a capital letter,
nouns.
These people's names are proper Miss Park
Florence Nightingale Mom
Robin Hood Mrs. Tayior
Muhammad Ali Dad
Aladdin Mr. Youn9
George Washington Granny
Frankenstein Grandad Dr. Lee
David Beckham
Harry Poter Professor Raj
Julia Roberts
Unclo David
Sontu Claus Jose
Nelson Moandela Aunt Diano
Mahatma Gandhi Yang Ming
Ms. Hall
Confucius Alex Rodriguez
Sunday 7
1 29 7
Mendey
A 2
Tuesday
Wadnasdey
2 0
Thurduy
10 17 4
Prhdey
Nouns: Proper Nouns
nouns.
monuments are proper
The names of famous places, buildings and
the Empire State Building
Big Ben
the Taj Mahal
the Sphinx
the Eiffel Tower
Graceland
the Golden Gate Bridge
the Grand Canyon
the Sydney Opera House the Great Wall of China
Chaco Canyon Pueblo
Buckingham Palace
the Statue of Liberty
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Exercise2
Underline the common nouns and circle the proper nouns in these sentences
Exercise 3
Reod the following passage contoining common nouns and proper nouns. Put a Ch
and a Pin the box after a proper noun.
the bor after a common noun
restourants
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Plural Nouns
Nouns: Singular Nouns;
Singular Nouns
Nouns can be singular or plural.
use a singular nou
wnen you are talking about just one thing or person,
For example:
a tent a park an idea
Plural Nouns Or
when you are talking about two or more people, places
Use a plural noun
things.
Just add s to make most nouns plural.
singular plural
singular plural
a mountain mountains
a computer computers
a river rivers
a chair chairs
trains an envelope envelopes
a train
an insect insects
a player players ovens
an oven
a teacher teachers
taxis an uncle uncles
a taxi
otcs
an eye
an insect
an ortist
an umbrello
an oven
T h e article a is used before nouns that begin with the other letters, called consonants.
don't follow these rules.
But some words
not an, is used because the vowel u in these words is
a uniform, a unit, a user: a,
the word you;
pronounced like
honor: an, not a, 15 usea decause the consonant h in these wards
an hour, an heir, an
is not pronounced.
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Nouns: Plural Nouns
Nouns that end in s, ss, ch, sh or x, are made plural by adding es.
Most nouns that end in y are made plural by changing they to i and
adding es.
singular plural
baby bobies
family families
story stories
teddy teddies
fairy fairies
puppy puppies
housefly houseflies
librory libraries
city cities
lily lilies
porty parties
dictionary dictionaries
f to v andd
Many nouns that end in f are made plural by changing the
adding es.
singular plural
holf holves
leaf leaves
shelf shelves
wolf wolves
thief thieves
singular plural
chief chiefs
roof roofs
handkerchiefs
handkerchief SS8/
cliff cliffs
puff puffs
to v and
nouns that end in fe are made plural by changing the f
Most
adding 5.
singular plural
knives
knife
wives
wife
lives
life
midwife
midwives e
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Most nouns that end in o are made plural by adding s.
plural
video videos
hippo hippos
zoo zoos
plural
tomato tomatoes
potato potatoes
hero heroes
Some nouns change spelling from the singular form to the plural.
singular plural
man men
Whar's the plural of the kind
woman women
of mouse that you use with a
child children computer? The plural is either
person people mice or mouses
mouse mice
tooth teeth
foot feet
goose geese
singular plural es
sheep sheep (not sheeps When you are taiking about different
deer deer inot deers) kinds of fish. the plural can be fishes
fish fish (not fishes for exarnpie:
aircroft aircraft (not oircrafts) the vorious fhishes of the indion Oceon
salmon salmon (not solmons)
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Nouns: PturalNouns
shoes chopsticks
sandals gloves
slippers clogs
boots socks
Exercise 4 or proper
nouns?
sentences. Are they common
4. The ambulance
was driving very fast.
them.
not agree with
5. Carl did
thick.
8. The fog was very
us?
9. May! invite Tom to join
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Nouns: Ptural Nouns
a pair of pants
tights binoculars a pair of glasses
pojamas pliers a pair of scissors
a pair of chopsticks
apair of sondals
Some nouns are usually plural.
a pair of gloves
shoes chopsticks
sandals gloves
slippers clogs
boots socks
Exercise 4
Underline all the nouns in the following sentences. Are they common or proper nouns?
Puta checkmarkin the correct box.
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Exercise 5
noun and P in the
each singular
passage. Write S
in the box after
Read the following
box after each plural noun.
in the
Ourteacheris a very nice lady kind to all the children
She's very
theanimals on a farm
were the
and cows i, but the heroes ofthe story
fasterthan the ducks the
the other animals
even though they had
were fasterthan all
mice .
They
shortestlegs!
Exercise 6
Write the correct
passage. Notice
that the plural nouns are missing.
Read the following has been done for you.
in parentheses. The first one
plural form of the singular
nouns
home.
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Nouner Celleative Nouns
Collective Nouns
are called collective nouns.
words for groups of people, animals or things
a family a crew
a team a club
a community a committee
a choir a company
a band a gang
an orchestra the government
an audience the army
verb. If
Collective nouns may be used with a singular verb or with plural
a
members are
the group is acting as a single unt, use a singular verb. If group
acting as individuals, use a plural
verb. For example: o es
Always use a plural verb with the
collective nouns, people and the
The crowd was orderly.
police. For example:
or
Those people live (not lives) in Asia.
The crowd were clopping, yelling The police have caught (not hos
and cheering. caught) the thief.
Here are more collective nouns you can use for groups of people.
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Nounst Calleotlve Nauns
colective nouns.
Some groups of things also have their own special
a bunch of bananas a deck of cards
a cluster of grapes a flight of steps
a bunch of flowers a suite of rooms
a bouquet of flowers o suite of furniture
a range of mountains a set of tools
a fleet of ships a string of beads
o fleet of vehicles a grove of trees
Exercise 7
Read the following passage. Write tho missing collective nouns in the blank spaces.
Remember that sometimes there are two words you can use.
Mom took Kate, Rudy and Derrick to the zoo. The zoo was very busy. A
of people had gathered round the monkeys. One of the monkeys had a
of bananas. Watching the monkey eat made the children feel hungry. Mom took a
of chocolate each. Rudy wanted to give one piece to a monkey, but the
zookeeper gove Rudy a very useful of advice. "Monkeys may look friendly
but sometimes they are very fierce," he said.
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Exercise8
as a
acting together
t e sentences. Doos the collectlve noun indicate a group group n
eo Does tho collective
noun indicate a
evidence.
1. The jury (were/was) arguing about the importance of
Exercise 9 of
from the box that names a part or an amount
with a noun
Complete each phrase
something.
ream pair
bushel SCOOp
pinch galaxy
drop grain
5. a of potatoes
of stars
1, 0
6. 0 of bookends
of sand
2. 0
7. a of ice cream
3.
ofpaper
of salt 8. a of rain
4. a
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Nounas Masouline and
Feminlne Neuns
Masculine and Feminine
Masculine nouns are Nouns
Feminine nouns are words for men, boys and male
words for women, animals.
qirls and female animals.
masculine feminine
boy masculine feminine
man
girl
nephew niece
woman
father king queen
Son
mother
prince princess
brother daughter emperor
sister empress
husband wizard witch
wife
actor
grandfather grandmother actress
uncle aunt
policeman policewoman
waiter waitress
ACROSS DOWN
masculine feminine masculine feminine
3. bull 1. actress
5. man 2. waiter
4. husbañd
6. fox
7. nephew
9. princess 8. aunt
10. empress 11. * goose
12. stalion
13. brother
14. king
15. duck
16 witch
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Nount The Posesstve Form of
Nou
The Possessive Form of Nouns
Use the possesslve form of a noun to show ownership.
o es
How do you make the possessive form when two names linked
by and are the owners? Put an 's after the second name only. For
example:
Koty and Mike's house is very big. (- the house that belongs to both
Katy ond Mike)
Joe and Sarah's dad works ot the shoe factory. (- He is Joe's dod and
he is also Sorah's dad.)
Sometimes two possessive forms with 's appear tagether, one after
the other:
This is John's brother's ball.(The ball blongsto John's brother.)
Paul's teooher's house has a swimming pool. (- the house that
belongs to Paul's teocher
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Nouns: The Possessive Form of Nouns
After plural nouns that end in s, just add an
The apostrophe
pupils' desks are arranged in rows.
The boys' bedroom is
bigger than the girls' bedroom.
The strong winds
destroyad all the farmers' crops.
Mice's tails are shorter
than rats' tails.
Notes
When a name ends in s,
you can make the possessive form in
either of two ways: anadd apostrophe and an s's, or add
Just an
apostrophel For example:
This is James's house. or This is James' house.
Which is Charles's bike? or Which is Charles' bike?
Exercise 11
Read the following passage. The possessive nouns are missing. Write the correct
possessive form of the nouns in parentheses. The first one has been done for you.
Peter is spending the day ot Tom's (Tom) house. Peter likes Tom's family. He
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especially likes (Tom's mom) cooking! The boys play lots of games
together
(Tom) sister doesn't like (Tom and Peter) games.
She is playing by herself. Sometimes the (boys) games become so noisy
that Mom tells them to go and play in the garden. (Tom) dog is in the
garden, lying in the sunshine. Tom wants to play with the dog, but Peter is afraid of the
(Peter) dad arrives in his car to toake Peter home. Tom says he
At 7 o'clock,
likes (Peter's dad) new car (Peter) dad says that
sometime.
he'l toke Tom for a ride in it
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PronoUns
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. There are different kinas
of pronouns.
Personal Pronouns
Personal pronouns may be used as:
t h e subject of a verb, or
the object of a verb.
Subject Pronouns
The subject of a verb does the action of the verb. The personal pronouns
1, you, he, she, it, we and they can all be used as the subject of a verb. Study
the following two sentences
Lisa likes cats. She has four cats.
In the first sentence, the proper noun Lisa is the subject of the verb likes.
In the second sentence, the pronoun she is the subject of the verb has.
Here are some more pairs of sentences that show personal pronouns used
as subjects of verbs.
Jim ond Jeff are my brothers. They are older thon I am.
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P r o n o u n s : Personal P r o n o u n s
Object Pronouns
The personal pronouns
of the verb.as the object of
The object of aa verb
verb receives
receives the
the action
action o ofa vero.
2e ODect used as the object a vero.
subject object
first person singuiar me
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Pronouns: Refex Pronouns
Reflexive Pronouns 1s
or pronoun that
words that refer to the noun herself, itself,
Kenexlve pronouns are myself, yourself.
himself.
of the verb. The words
pronouns
Det and themselves
are reflexive
ourselves. yourselves
himselt
My brother built ths computer
thot knte
Be coretul not to cut yourself with
the mirror
John wos looking ot himself in
to use with
Here is a tabie to help you remember which reflexive pronoun
which personal pronoun.
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Pronoun
Demonstrotwe
Pronoun
Pronouns: Possessive
Possessive Pronouns
pronouns are used to talk about things
that belong to people.
POSsessive
ne words mine, yours, his, hers, ours and theirs are possesS1Ve pronu
to use with
Here is a table to help you remember which possessive pronoun
which personal pronoun.
plural personal possessive
singular personal possessive
pronoun pronoun pronoun pronoun
we, us Ours
, me mine
you yours
you yours
his they, them theirs
he, him
she, her hers
Demostrative Pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns are used for pointing out things. The words this,
are demonstrative pronouns.
that, these and those
This is my desk. These are my pets.
These are sheep but those are goats.
This is the Mings' house.
Those are horses.
That is my friend's house.
That's my mother's car.
than this.
You'll have to work harder
N oes
We can do better than that.
Use this and these when you are
awful!
It's raining again. This is talking about things near you.
Who is that knocking at
the door? Use that and those when you are
Kathleen. This is Michael.
talking about things farther away.
Hi,
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e r r o g a v e ronouns; Inderinite Fronouio
whom:
Whom did the President criticize?
To whom is Mom talking?
inedefinite Pronouns
not refer directly to any other word. Most
An indefinite pronoun does
idea of quantity.
indefinite pronouns express he
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P r o n o u n s : Indefinite P r o n o u n s
Indefinite Pronouns
other
all each most
several
either neither
another some
any everybody nobody
none
somebody
anybody everyone someone
no one
anyone few such
both many one
an
when it makes
is considered an indefinite pronoun
The pronoun they
indefinite reference.
Exercise 1
in the
Read the following passage. Write the missing subject and object pronouns
blank spaces.
together.I like playing football with because they are very good, We are
going to the park today. Would you like to come with. Can
to. I think Aw will like my dad. He is very funny ond.(YY makes great
pizzas. Do ike pizza?
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Exercise 2 *
Exercise3
Who A e
Whose
Whot
Which de
Whom
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