1. IDENTIFYING NOUN CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT NOUN SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS
Noun (part 1)
IDENTIFYING NOUN
CONCRETE AND ABSTRACT NOUN
SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS

2. IDENTIFYING NOUN
Nouns are commonly defined as words that refer to a person, place, thing, or idea. For example:
Chair
Computer
Farmer
Book
Pen
Watch
Lecturer
Money
Table
Singer
Jacket
Hat
Box
Woman
Stick
Eraser

3. Exercise 1 Which of the following words are nouns? Tree When Beds
Glass
Said
6. Slowly
7. Factory
8. Ticket
9. Boxes
10. Almost

4. Exercise 2 Underline the nouns in the phrases. Your red sweater
Those boxes
A few men
Their carpets
Many photos
6. His very interesting article
7. Two interesting museums
My white bag
On Facebook
The car in the garage

5. Concrete and abstract noun
Here’s an unusual sentence: He smelled the marriage. What makes this sentence unusual is that we don’t generally think of the noun marriage as something that can be smelled. Some nouns are concrete: they can be perceived by senses – they are things that we can see, smell, taste, or touch. Those nouns are not concrete, but abstract. Marriage is something abstract, so it’s odd to say it’s being perceived by one of our senses, our sense of smell. Abstract nouns are nouns that we cannot perceive with our senses.

6. examples CONCRETE ABSTRACT Newspaper Love Heel Honesty Glass Culture
Jewelry
Mind
Pocket
Wisdom
Woman
Beauty

7. Exercise 3
Decide if each noun is concrete or abstract.

8. SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS
What’s the difference between cat and cats? The noun cat is used when it refers to only one cat; its form is singular. The noun cats is used when it represents more than one cat; its form is plural. Thus, the singular and plural forms tell us about number.

9. examples Singular Plural Box Boxes Bed Beds Kite Kites Day Days
Country
Countries
Man
Men
Child
Children
Tooth
Teeth

10. Exercise 4
Underline each noun in the sentence and indicate whether it is singular or plural:
He had a few good ideas.
The boys spoke to the women.
My neighbour is a neuorologist.
Many students are living in a dormitory
Those five sheep are mine.