Jabberwocky Starter Quiz 1

A noun is a naming word.  It is the name of a ...  
(check as many as you think are correct)

• Person

• Animal

• Place

• Thing

• Feeling

What are the nouns in this statement? "Sammy collected the parcel."  
(check one)

• Sammy

• Sammy, collected

• collected, parcel

• Sammy, parcel

• Sammy, collected, parcel

A proper noun has a ? as it is the name of a person or place.  
(Check one)

• Capital letter

• Hypen

• Comma

• Written in bold

Check the common nouns in the list below. A common noun is the name common to all people or things of the same kind.
(clue -worth 4 marks)

• Tree

• Cat

• Boy

• Teenager

• Alice

An abstract noun is a          
(check one)

• feeling or idea

• feeling

• idea

• an artistic painting of a person

A noun group is a group of words that includes a noun that describes the thing, place or person. Check the sentences that have a noun group below.
(clue -check three boxes)

• The cat is grey.

• I like fish.

• All the animals at the zoo were restless.

• Many children huddled together in the playground.

• Some cats like kibble more than wet food.