Nouns

Which of the following nouns names a person?

• dog

• tree

• mailman

• frog

Which of the following nouns names a place?

• teacher

• ball

• park

• shoe

Which of the following nouns names a thing?

• watch

• Family Mart

• cook

• market

Which of the following phrases best describes a concrete noun?

• Any noun that describes a type of building material.

• Any noun that describes a person, place, thing, or idea.

• Any noun that describes something harder than concrete.

• Any noun that can be recognized through any of the five senses.

Which of the following phrases best describes an abstract noun?

• Any noun that cannot be recognized through the senses.

• Any noun used to describe abstract art.

• Any noun that can be counted.

• Any noun that cannot be counted.

Identify the noun in the following sentence:

Can you help me with my homework please?

• please

• help

• my

• homework

Identify the noun in the following sentence:

The children ran through the grass.

• grass

• ran

• through

• the

Identify the nouns in the following sentence:

The elephant is walking in the tall grass.

• walking, tall

• tall, in

• walking, the

• elephant, grass

Read the following sentence carefully. Then, identify the abstract noun.

Colin's goal was to read 20 books over the summer.

• Colin

• goal

• read

• books

Read the following sentence carefully. Then identify the underlined word as being a concrete noun or an abstract noun.

I hope you have some success today at the tennis match.

• Concrete

• Abstract