Nouns
Naming words — common, proper, collective and the invisible ones
Free trail · English · ages 9–10 · 6 stations
Four Kinds of Noun
A noun names something. But there are four different kinds, and knowing them makes your writing far sharper. Flip every card.
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Names ANY one of a kind — dog, city, river, teacher. Lower case, unless it starts a sentence.
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The special name of ONE particular thing — Ganga, Mumbai, Diwali, Anaya. Always a capital letter.
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Names a group as one thing — a flock of birds, a team, a bunch of grapes, a herd of elephants.
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Names something you cannot touch — courage, happiness, freedom, honesty. Real, but invisible.
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Four Kinds of Noun
Flip cards
A noun names something. But there are four different kinds, and knowing them makes your writing far sharper. Flip every card.
Nouns are not all the same. Flip the cards to meet the whole family.
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Common or Proper?
Sorting baskets
A common noun names any one of a kind. A proper noun names one particular one — and always takes a capital letter. Sort these.
Proper nouns always wear a capital-letter hat. Sort them!
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Collective Nouns
Matching pairs
English has a special word for almost every kind of group — and some of them are gloriously strange. Match them up!
English has wonderfully specific words for groups. Match them up!
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Nouns You Cannot Touch
Try it
An abstract noun names something real that you cannot see or touch — a feeling, an idea, a quality. Find them here.
Abstract nouns name ideas and feelings. Spot them in these sentences.
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Making Plurals
Sorting baskets
Most plurals simply add -s, but some words follow other rules — and a few ignore the rules completely. Sort these by how they form their plural.
Most plurals just add -s. The rest follow rules worth knowing.
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More English for ages 9–10
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