Transcript Nouns
Nouns English Grammar and Skills Toolkit Nouns Icons key: For more detailed instructions, see the Getting Started presentation Flash activity. These activities are not editable. Sound 11of of10 9 Extension activities Teacher’s notes included in the Notes Page Web addresses Accompanying worksheet © ©Boardworks Boardworks Ltd Ltd 2009 2009 This is an excerpt from the “Nouns” presentation in Boardworks English for Australia, which contains 235 presentations in total.© Boardworks Ltd 2009 2 of 10 Learning objectives In this unit you will… Learn what a noun is and the difference between a concrete noun and an abstract noun Distinguish between proper, common and collective nouns Identify count nouns and non-count (mass) nouns 32of of10 9 © ©Boardworks Boardworks Ltd Ltd 2009 2009 What is a noun? Nouns are ‘naming words’. They identify people, animals, places, things and ideas. Concrete nouns refer to things we can see, touch, taste, hear or smell. For example, ‘dog’, ‘chair’, ‘apple’, ‘book’, ‘field’, ‘house’. Abstract nouns refer to thoughts, ideas, feelings and qualities – things we cannot see or touch. For example, ‘happiness’, ‘sadness’, ‘pain’, ‘fear’, ‘anger’, ‘beauty’, ‘love’ and ‘hate’. Can you think of five more concrete nouns and five more abstract nouns? 4 of 10 © Boardworks Ltd 2009 Different groups of nouns All nouns can be divided into the following three groups: Proper nouns The names of particular people, places or things, e.g. ‘Katie’, ‘Spain’, ‘Tuesday’. Proper nouns begin with capital letters. Common nouns All nouns that are not proper nouns, e.g. ‘cat, ‘table’, ‘hamburger’, ‘kindness’. Collective nouns Nouns that refer to a group of nouns, e.g. ‘herd’, ‘team’, ‘family’, ‘class’, ‘orchestra’. Collective nouns take a singular verb, e.g. ‘The herd of sheep is very noisy.’ 5 of 10 © Boardworks Ltd 2009 Proper, common or collective? 6 of 10 © Boardworks Ltd 2009 Count nouns and non-count nouns Common nouns can be count nouns or non-count nouns. Count nouns are, literally, things that can be counted! For example, you can have one pizza, two hamburgers and three milkshakes. Pizza, hamburger and milkshake are all examples of count nouns. They have a singular form and they have a plural form. Can you name ten count nouns in your classroom? 7 of 10 © Boardworks Ltd 2009 Count and non-count (mass) nouns Non-count – or ‘mass’ nouns – are nouns that cannot be counted. For example, we do not say “could I have two milks please”. We say, “could I have some milk”. Milk is a non-count (mass) noun. It has a singular form but it does not have a plural form. Here are some more examples of non-count (mass) nouns. rice air money music sand salt mud homework boredom meat soap Can you think of any more non-count (mass) nouns? 8 of 10 © Boardworks Ltd 2009 Count or non-count noun? 9 of 10 © Boardworks Ltd 2009 Team quiz 10 of 10 © Boardworks Ltd 2009