NOUN

နာမည္မွန္သမွ ် NOUN
 NOUN အမ်ိ ဳ းအစားမ်ား
၁။ အမ်ားဆို င္နာမ္ (Common Noun)
၂။ တစ္ဦးဆို င္နာမ္ (Proper Noun)
၃။ စိတၱဇနာမ္ (Abstract Noun)
Common Noun Proper Noun Abstract Noun
journal (ဂ်ာနယ္ ) Eleven Journal (အီလဲဗင္းဂ်ာနယ္ ) news (သတင္း)
jeans Levis dream (အိပ္မက္)
restaurant (စားေသာက္ Aung Chan Thar (ေအာင္ခ်မ္းသာ) opportunity (အလု ပ္အကို င္အခြင့္လမ္း )
ဆို င္)
city (ျမိဳ႕) Kut-kai (ကြတ္ခုိင္ ) happiness (ေပ်ာ္ရြင္ျခင္း )
planet (ျဂိဳလ္) Neptune (နတ္ပဂြ်န္းျဂိဳလ္ ) life (ဘ၀)
phone Oppo relaxation (အပန္းေျဖျခင္း)
 EXERCISES

A.Write down words that name

six people ( example : teacher, ……...........…)

six animals (example: dog, ………………….)

six things (example: table, ………...………)

B. Pick out the nouns that name people in these sentences. There are 9
of them.
Example : My mother is Daw Khin Cho Lynn.
Answer : mother , Daw Khin Cho Lynn
1. The boy saw his brother.
2. My sister is a clever girl.
3. Mg San Aung Jia lives in Kut-kai.
4. That little girl is my sister.
5. The name of my school is A Lynn Yaung.
6. The man opened the door for his wife.
C. Pick out the nouns that name things in these sentences.
Example : There is a pen on the desk.
Answer : pen, desk

1. The teacher wrote on the blackboard.

2. Put the chalk on the table.

3. Open your books and read the words on the first page.

4. Ma Khin Khin Nyein is watching TV.

5. You can buy tea and sugar at the shop.

6. There are four windows in this room.

D. Pick out the nouns that name animals in these sentences.

1. The dog is running in the field.

2. Look! The cat has caught a mouse.
3. I saw lions and tigers in the zoo.
4. The bird is singing in the tree.
5. We get milk from cows.
6. A whale lives in the sea, but it isn’t really a fish.
E. Here are some nouns that name ideas. Use one to complete each
sentence. We have completed number 1 for you.
journey time answer peace
noise price winter news
1. What is the answer to this question?
2. In some countries, __________ is a very cold season.
3. We measure _________ in hours.
4. What’s the ________ of those shoes? –Four thousands kyats.
5. Everybody wants _______ and not war.
6. Please don’t make so much ______. I’m trying to study.
7. Have you heard the ______? The war has ended.
8. They arrived at the end of their long ________ .
F. Pick out the nouns in this story. There are 15 different nouns in it.
To cure a headache
A man went into a chemist’s shop and said, “I want something for a very bad
headache.”
The chemist took a bottle from a shelf, held it under the man’s nose and
opened it. The smell was so strong that tears came into the man’s eyes and
ran down his cheeks.
“What did you do that for?” he said angrily, as soon as he could get back
his breath.
“But that medicine has cured your headache, hasn’t it?” said the
chemist.
“You fool,” said the man. “It’s my wife that has the headache, not me!”
H. Put all the singular nouns in one column and all the plural nouns in another column.

To cure a headache
A man went into a chemist’s shop and said, “I want something for a very bad
headache.”
The chemist took a bottle from a shelf, held it under the man’s nose and
opened it. The smell was so strong that tears came into the man’s eyes and
ran down his cheeks.
“What did you do that for?” he said angrily, as soon as he could get back
his breath.
“But that medicine has cured your headache, hasn’t it?” said the
chemist.
“You fool,” said the man. “It’s my wife that has the headache, not me!”