1. AGRICULTURE HIGH SCHOOL
Agriculture, Midsayap, Cotabato
Name: __________________________________________ Date: ______________
Year and Section: _________________________________ Score: _____________
Subject: English 9
Learning Target: To define and identify the types of nouns.
Activity No. 1-12
Activity Title: Types of Nouns
NOUN- is a name of a person, place or thing.
Concrete and Abstract Nouns. Nouns are sometimes grouped according to the characteristics of the things they name. A
concrete noun names something that you can physically see, touch, taste hear or smell. An abstract noun names
something that is nonphysical that you cannot readily perceive through any of your five senses.
Concrete
Nouns
Abstract
Nouns
garlic career
book immortality
TASK 1: RECOGNIZING NOUNS: The following paragraph is taken from Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Short
Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”. Underline all the nouns you can find and tell its kind.
Francis Macomber had half an hour before, been carried to his tent from the edge of the camp in triumph on the arms
and shoulders of the cook, the personal boys, the skinner and the porters. The gun-bearers had taken no part in the
demonstration. When the native boys put him down at the door of his tent, he had shaken all their hands, received their
congratulations, and then gone into the tent and sat on the bed until his wife came in. She did not speak to him when she
came in and he left the tent at once to wash his face and hands in the portable wash basin outside and go over to the dining
tent to sit in a comfortable canvas chair in the breeze and the shade.
Singular and Plural Nouns
Nouns can indicate number
Singular nouns name one person, place or thing.
Plural nouns name more than one.
Singular Nouns
Regular Irregular
valley mouse
sky ox
lash nucleus
Plural Nouns
valleys mice
skies oxen
lashes nuclei
Compound Nouns
A noun that is composed of two or more words
acting as a single unit
Three Forms
1. Separated
crab grass, player piano, snake dance
2. Hyphenated
jack-in-the-box, light-year, sister-in-law
3. Combined
dragonfly, eardrum, starfish
Common and Proper Nouns. All nouns can be categorized as either common or proper. A common noun names
any one of a class of people, places or things. A proper noun names a specific person, place or thing.
Common Nouns Proper Nouns
playwright Bernard Shaw, Lillian Hellman
island Maui, Sicily
building World Trade Towers, Taj Mahal