1. welcome
Class IV English
PINOCCHIO / Use of Noun forms

2. How long is the line?
The line is 10 cms long.
What is the length of the line?
The length of the line is 10cms.

3. The Taj Mahal appears very beautiful on a full moon night.
People from all over the world come to see its beauty
Beautiful beauty

4. Wise wisdom Akbar had a wise minister.His name was Birbal.
There are many stories about his wisdom.
Wise wisdom

5. We must find ways to stop this cruelty

6. Mother Theresa was a very kind person.
She showed a lot of kindness to the people who lived in the streets

7. This man wants to make the secret public.
So he is using a loud speaker to give it wide publicity

8. Helen Keller was blind.
Her blindness did not prevent her from travelling around the world and writing many books.

9. Now compare the sentences
The length of the line is 10 cms.
People from all over come to see its beauty.
There are many stories about his wisdom.
We must find ways to stop this cruelty
The colour of this line is blue
People from all over come to see its marbles.
There are many stories about his turban.
We must find ways to stop these people.

10. Noun forms
We find that the words length,beauty,wisdom,cruelty,kindness,
blindness etc do the function of naming words or nouns in these sentences.
So they are called the noun forms of the words.