1. Kinds of Nouns
Grade

2. What are NOUNS for?

3. Let's practice finding NOUNS.
Remember, a NOUN is a name of person, place, thing or idea.
Study these examples:
1. Mary ate a bowl of delicious soup.
The nouns are Mary, bowl and soup.
2. Our new baby was born in the hospital on Friday.
The nouns are baby, hospital and Friday.

4. Let’s first recall what nouns are!
In order to go through your activity properly, let us recall first what nouns are!
For this part, Annie and Moby will join us once again!

5. More Practice. Read and understand pages 2-3 of your textbook
More Practice! Read and understand pages 2-3 of your textbook.Then, answer pages 3-4 (Exercises A and B only).

6. Since NOUNS are EVERYWHERE
Since NOUNS are EVERYWHERE. They are easier to identify through their classifications or kinds.
There are 7 kinds of nouns:
Proper Nouns 5. Abstract Nouns
Common Nouns 6. Concrete Nouns
Count Nouns 7. Collective Nouns
Mass Nouns

7. What are the differences between common and proper nouns?

8. Common Noun
A noun that names any:
person
place
thing
idea

9. A noun that names a specific: person place thing idea
Proper Noun
A noun that names a specific:
person
place
thing
idea
Happy Valley
Church
Mario
Mr. Gatti’s Pizza
Newton’s Theory of Gravity

10. Here are some more examples of common and proper nouns:
Common Proper
country Philippines
president Ninoy Aquino
teacher Mrs. Ibarra
game Monopoly
museum National Museum
song Born This Way
lawyer Attorney Trina Legarda
Notice that because proper nouns name specific people, places, or things, they are all CAPITALIZED.

11. Are you ready for a practice?
Read and understand page 7 of your textbook. Then, answer page 8 (Exercises A and B only).

12. Let us try this!
Can you substitute appropriate proper nouns to the underlined common nouns?
The teacher prepares for her next class.
She needs to give one student a make-up test.

13. Answer page 9 of your textbook, Exercise C only.
More Practice!
Answer page 9 of your textbook, Exercise C only.

14. Look at the table below. What do you notice with their grouping?
teacher
sand
table
soil
garbage can
gas
poster
hair
trees
grain
bag
water

15. What do the nouns in the first column have in common?
teacher
table
garbage can
poster
trees
bag
The nouns in the 1st column are what we call count (countable) nouns or names of people, places, things that we can count.

16. Numerals like one, two and three or articles such as a and an are put before these nouns to indicate their numbers.
Examples:
a book (pertaining to one book)
two villages
seven dwarfs
twelve apostles
four pencils

17. How about the nouns in the 2nd column?
Nouns such as gas, sand and soil cannot be counted.
What do we call these kinds of nouns?
Mass nouns are names of uncountable things that we look upon as one big mass.
sand
soil
gas
hair
grain
water

18. Let’s Practice!
Read pages silently. Then, answer pages of your textbook, Exercise A only.

19. We cannot say one pastas, three waters, twelve juices
So How do you count mass nouns?
You can't, but you can measure them.
What can you use to measure nouns that are uncountable?
For mass nouns, we use counters!

20. Noun counters are measuring devices we use to quantify mass nouns.
Containers are form of counters. Remember that the nouns you're counting do not take the plural form. The container does.
Examples:
a box of cereal
six buckets of water

21. Seven cans of Coke
Eight cartons of milk
Nine cups of coffee
Ten glasses of water
Eleven jars of honey
A dozen packets of butter

22. You can measure a mass noun to count it but the measurement takes the plural form not the noun.
Examples:
Two liters of milk
Five kilos of butter

23. Fourteen spoonfuls of sugar
You can measure mass nouns using shapes or portions but once again the measurement takes the plural form.
Examples:
Two pinches of salt
Five slices of cake
Fourteen spoonfuls of sugar

24. Look at the following table:
How much _______? = uncountable nouns
Example: How much coffee do you drink?
How many _______? = countable nouns
Example: How many cups of coffee do you drink?

25. Let’s Practice!
Give an appropriate counter for the following nouns.
bread
oil
meat
pasta
rice

26. Answer pages 13-14 of your textbook, Exercises B and C only.
Let’s Practice!
Answer pages of your textbook, Exercises B and C only.

27. Identify the mass nouns that do not have appropriate counters.
a. five kilos of rice
b. strands of hair
c. four gallons of salt
a. a bag of tea
b. two liters of paint
c. a slice of milk

28. a. eleven tanks of oxygen
b. nine bottles of meat
c. three kilos of rice
4. a. a basket of vinegar
b. a sack of cement
c. eight ounces of soda
5. a. a cup of coffee
b. seven cans of butter
c. a box of soap

29. Why do we need to distinguish count nouns from mass nouns?
Identifying count and mass nouns would make us communicate our ideas better!
Imagine saying milks, salts or butters! Obviously these nouns are in incorrect forms because they are mass nouns that need counters for measurement.

30. MEMO: No classes tom. due to Prayer Rally.
No clubs on Friday. Dismissal at 12:10 PM.
No. of order for class picture: _____
Amount to be paid: ______
4. ENGLISH=Answer pages of your textbook, Exercises B and C.