Nouns (exercises, PDFs, and slide show)

Teaching Resources for Nouns

On this page, you will find a "spot the word" exercise featuring 8 classic texts, some handy one-page pdfs related to nouns, and an interactive slide show that summarizes our main lesson on nouns. These are resources to help you master or teach nouns.

Remember that nouns are words that represent people, places, or things. You might find it helpful to think of nouns as "naming words."

"Spot the Word" Exercise

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Download PDF Files on Nouns

Here are some useful one-page PDF handouts on nouns:

A summary of the nouns lesson

• a definition of "noun"
• the main noun categories

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A list of the top 50 nouns in English

• water, food, mother, father, house, car, dog, cat, money, morning, night, afternoon, brother, sister, bed, kitchen, restaurant, bird, tree, flower, animal, mobile phone, sun, moon, sea, river, weather, eyes, ears, hair, shoes, bag, train, bus, knife, fork, spoon, breakfast, dinner, bread, fruit, vegetables, meat, drink, town, village, toilet, weekend, doctor, policeman

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A summary of common nouns and proper nouns

• a definition of "common noun" with examples
• a definition of "proper noun" with examples

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A summary of the main types of noun

• common, proper, concrete, abstract, countable, non-countable, collective, compound, gerund

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Interactive Slide Show on Nouns

Here is a slide show that summarizes the lesson on nouns. The slide show has 6 slides, which you can see below. It can be played with the sound on or – if you prefer your own voice and timings – with the sound off.

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nouns

Nouns are words that represent people, places, or things.

You might find it helpful to think of nouns as "naming words."

Here are some examples of nouns:

People

soldier, Alan, cousin, lawyer

Places

house, London, factory, shelter

Things

table, shark, kindness, joy

Nouns with capital letters are called proper nouns.

Michael, London, Dexter

Nouns without capital letters are called common nouns.

boy, city, dog

Let's concentrate on nouns that name things.

objects

table, house, London Bridge, oxygen, week, mile

animals

dog, rat, shark, Mickey Mouse

ideas or concepts

(abstract nouns)

anger, kindness, faith, Theory of Relativity, joy

There are lots of categories for nouns.

common nouns

(These are the words that appear in the dictionary.)

proper nouns

(These are personal names, unique names, or titles. They have capital letters.)

abstract nouns

(These are things you cannot see or touch.)

concrete nouns

(These are things you can see or touch.)

Here are some more categories for nouns.

countable nouns

(These nouns have plural forms.)

examples: teacher (teachers), town (towns), ball (balls)

non-countable nouns

(These nouns do not have plurals.)

examples: rice, oxygen, dust

collective nouns

(These represent groups.)

examples: team (of players), flock (of birds), pack (of wolves)

compound nouns

(These are made up of two or more words.)

examples: snowman, bus stop, ice-cream

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More resources:

lessons (with tests)

our main lesson on nouns, common nouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns, concrete nouns, countable nouns, non-countable nouns, compound nouns, collective nouns

games

bubble pop, fish game, whack a word, word finder, hangman

videos

our main video on nouns, different types of nouns, nouns for kids

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