Nouns

Select the one that is not a proper noun.

• Harry

• a prince

• Buckingham Palace

Select the sentence that contains a proper noun.

• I can resist everything except temptation.

• We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

Common nouns are always written with capital letters.

• True

• False

Select the abstract noun.

• apple

• love

• paper

• house

Find the abstract noun and write it in the blank.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it! (Charlie Chaplin)

Select the concrete noun

• chocolate

• hate

• friendship

Select the concrete noun.

• peace

• laziness

• power

• ice

Select the collective noun.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. (Anthropologist Margaret Mead)

• group

• citizens

• thing

A collective noun can be treated as singular or plural depending on the context.

• True

• False

Select the compound noun

• people

• six-pack

• return