Week 1

English Grammar Notes & Exercises

Tr. Yoon
Noun
Types of noun Examples Your examples

Common noun City, School, Temple

Proper noun Yangon, FOEIM, Chinese temple

Collective noun A bouquet of flowers, a flock of

sheep, colony of penguins,
team,committee,crew
Singular noun Horse, baby, man

Plural noun Horses, babies, men

Countable noun Tomato/tomatoes, glass/glasses

Uncountable noun Bread, snow, salt

Abstract noun Anger, beauty, confidence, love,

luck, happiness
Quantifiers meaning Countable noun Uncountable noun

little Small, minor

few Small, slight

A lot of A large number of

amount
Many Very, numerous

much Very, too, a lot

Lots of A lot of

Some Unspecified amount

Any Never, at all

Containers & Quantities worksheet
Exercises
A. Determine whether or not the word in red is a noun. If it is noun, write Y for yes.
If it is not a noun, write N for No.

B. Write the plural form of each singular noun.

C. For each of the following sentences, decide whether the word in bold print is
the subject or the verb .
1. The moon disappeared behind the clouds.
2. We waited.
3. Nobody said a word.
4. His hair is red and frizzy.
5. Furious flames lit up the night.
6. Mr. Joe is the funniest man I have ever known.
7. Our hearts beat faster.
8. He has small, dark, hamster-like eyes.
9. My friends worry too much.
10. Randy and Juan like sports.
11. Singing was his favorite activity.
12. Jim Hawkins carefully unfolded the map to Treasure Island.
13. Sam threw the paper airplane through the classroom.
14. Astronauts are trained for space missions.
15. Each teammate has a trophy in their hands.