Do You Know Your Nouns?
(There may be more than one correct answer for each question)
1. Which are not nouns?
cream passive jump balloon air hum
2. Which are nouns?
wing sail Italy yell truth cared
3. Which are possessive nouns or pronouns?
Mary mine their Chad’s dog’s cookies
4. Which are uncountable nouns?
sand hotdog milk sled racetrack sickness
5. Which are not collective nouns?
flock jury sheep committee tribe army
6. Which are not plural nouns?
calves deer curtain mice criteria dice
7. Which are not concrete nouns?
tree fear wind table ticket sympathy
8. Which are countable nouns?
rose cereal weather picture dust gravy
9. Which are abstract nouns?
kiss jealousy suspicion humor shyness popcorn
10. Which are common nouns?
pancake Bible book April police terror
11. Which are nouns?
hungered remember petunia whether party above
12. Which are proper nouns?
Columbus gravel Jeremy hamburger surprise Nepal
13. Count the nouns in this excerpt from Macbeth. Count them even if they are used as another part of speech, but do not count the words used as verbs. How many can you find? 15 21 25 29 32?
Double, double toil and trouble.
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble.
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.