Noun & its types

 A ___________________ is singular in form but names a group of persons,

animals or things.

 Proper noun

 Collective

 Abstract

 Common

 Which are examples of collective nouns?

 Audience, crew, family, team

 Him, his, her, she, we

 Dog, cat, elephant, rat, coupon

 Both a and b

 John’s cars sit in the garage because he only drives one at a time.(choose the
plural noun)

 John’s

 Cars

 Garage

 Drives

 Which of the following is not a compound noun?

 Mother-in-law

 Ice cream

 Stepfather

 Annual budget
 Identify the following noun:

Forest

 Common

 Proper

 Collective

 Abstract

 The name Australia is a

 Common

 Abstract

 Proper

 Material

 The following are examples of____________.

Girl, writer, country, language, city

 Proper noun

 Collective noun

 Common noun

 Abstract noun

 Is the word “teacher” in the sentence below a noun or an adjective?

Mr. James is a teacher

 Noun

 Adjective

 Pronoun

 Verb

 What type of noun is the subject of the following sentence?

As soon as the army withdrew, the region descended into anarchy.

 Abstract noun

 Common noun

 Collective noun

 Compound noun

 I went to grocery store to purchase some milk. The words “store” and “milk” are
what kind of nouns?

 Specific noun

 Gerund

 Common noun

 Collective noun

 What do we call a noun that names people, places, or things?

 Common noun

 Collective noun

 Compound noun

 Proper noun

 What type of noun is the subject of the following sentence?

None of the FIREMEN were able to explain the anomaly they observed in the burning
house.

 Abstract noun

 Common noun

 Compound noun

 Proper noun

 A noun that names ideas, feelings, or qualities. Example: sorrow.

 Proper noun

 Abstract noun

 Common noun

 Collective noun

 What type of noun is the subject of the following sentence?

COMPASSION is the reason that she is very amicable.

 Abstract noun

 Common noun

 Collective noun

 Compound noun

 Which noun is not a common noun.

 Weekend

 Month

 Country

 USA

 _____________________ are always written with a capital letter at the

beginning.

 Common noun

 Indefinite noun

 Gerund

 Proper noun

 Which of the following is an abstract noun?

 Mary

 Canada
 Judgement

 Jury

 Which of the following is not uncountable noun?

 Milk

 Oil

 Apple

 Sugar

 Identify noun in the following sentence:

Solomon was famous for his wisdom.

 Wisdom

 Famous

 His

 was

 Identify noun in the following sentence:

The soldiers were rewarded for their bravery.

 Rewarded

 Soldiers

 Their

 for

 Identify noun in the following sentence:

A committee of five was appointed.

 Five

 Appointed

 Committee
 was

 Identify collective noun in the following sentence:

Our class consists of twenty pupils.

 Consists

 Pupils

 Class

 of

 Identify abstract noun in the following sentence:

I believe in his innocence.

 Believe

 His

 Innocence

 in

 Identify compound noun in the following sentence:

Without health there is no happiness.

 Happiness

 Health

 Without

 None of the above

 Which of the following is the feminine gender?

 Bull

 Horse

 Bachelor

 Mare
 Which of the following is not feminine gender?

 Poetess

 Waitress

 Peacock

 Lioness

 Examples of nouns are:

 Uncle, kitchen, apple, respect

 Play, eat, jump, study

 You, me, they, he

 In, on, above, behind

 To “propose” is a noun.

 True

 False

 Its both true or false

 None of the above

 Which is not a noun?

 Dog

 School

 Running

 Mr. Taylor

 What is a noun?

 A describing word

 A naming word

 An action word
 A linking word

 Does wood sink in water? (Which word is a material noun?)

 Sink

 Does

 Water

 Wood

 My mother wears gold jewelry. (which word is a material noun?)

 Wears

 Jewelry

 Mother

 Gold

 Honesty is best policy. (Which word is an abstract noun?)

 Best

 Honesty

 policy

 The

 Moon shines at night. (which word is a proper noun?)

 Moon

 night

 Shines

 At

 How many students in your class? (Which word is a countable noun?)

 Many
 Students
 Class
 Your
 Rice is my favorite dish. (Which word is an uncountable noun?)
 My
 Dish
 Favorite
 Rice
 Beauty does not need any ornaments. (Which word is an uncountable
noun?)
 Need
 Beauty
 Any
 Ornaments.
 Identify nouns in the following sentence.
I played the awesome and exciting video game loudly in my room.
 Played, game
 Exciting, awesome
 Game, room
 Loudly, room
 Identify nouns in the following sentence.
Many families headed for their favorite beach during the hot weather.
 Many, families
 Favorite, beach
 Hot, weather
 Beach, weather
 Identify nouns in the following sentence.
If I had a big hammer I could fix the problem.
 Had, hammer
 Hammer, problem
 Problem, fix
 Big, hammer
 Identify nouns in the following sentence.
The octopus silently wrapped its tentacles around its prey.
 Octopus, prey
 Wrapped, tentacles
 Silently, wrapped
 Tentacles, around
 Identify nouns in the following sentence.
The rogue elephant trampled through the crowd in the big top.
 Rogue, elephant
 Elephant, trampled
 Crowd, rogue
 Elephant, top
 Identify nouns in the following sentence.
The dog flinched when he saw the stick in his owner's hand.
 Dog, flinched
 Dog, stick
 Stick, flinched
 Dog, saw
 Identify nouns in the following sentence.
The donkey brayed when he was angry and wanted to quit working.
 Angry, quit
 Brayed, angry
 Donkey, wanted
 None of the above
 Identify nouns in the following sentence.
My teacher says she is liable to take a long vacation this summer.
 Teacher, vacation
 Liable, take
 Liable, long
 Long, summer
 Identify nouns in the following sentence.
I ate a giant hamburger before quickly going to the baseball game.
 Giant, hamburger
 Going, game
 Hamburger, game
 Quickly, baseball
 Identify nouns in the following sentence.
Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States.
 Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth
 President, United States
 United States, was
 Sixteenth, States
 Identify nouns in the following sentence.
She looked everywhere for her cat. She finally found it under the bed.
 She, looked
 Looked, everywhere
 Cat, bed
 Cat, under
 City is a proper noun; Mount Dora is a common noun.
 True
 False
 Both true and false
 None of the above
 When nouns end in -s or -es, they are singular nouns.
 True
 False
 Both true and false
 None of the above
Answer key for noun & its types

 B

 A

 B

 D

 A

 C

 C

 A

 C

 C

 D

 B

 B

 A

 D

 D

 C

 C

 A

 B

 C
 C

 C

 D

 D

 C

 A

 B

 C

 B

 D

 D

 B

 A

 B

 D

 B

 C

 D

 B

 A

 D

 B

 D

 A
 C

 B

 C

 B

 B

Subject & predicate

Identify the underlined words as:

 Our homeroom is having a pizza party tomorrow.
 Subject
 Predicate
 Both subject and predicate
 Complete subject
 Football is played in every country in the world.
 Subject
 Predicate
 None of the above
 Clause
 Yasmin yawned.
 Subject
 Predicate
 Phrase
 Clause
 Sitting on the roof of my house was a huge black bird.
 Subject
 Predicate
 Complete Noun
 All of the above
 You have a vocabulary test tomorrow.
 Subject
 Predicate
 Phrase
 None of the above
 At the weekend my mother works at a sports club.
 Subject
 Predicate
 complete subject
 complete predicate
 After doing his homework John went to bed.
 Subject
 Predicate
 Phrase
 Clause
 In most English sentences the subject comes before the predicate.
 Subject
 Predicate
 Complete subject
 All are correct
 On the way from school to Frankfurt yesterday afternoon bus number 21
crashed into a parked car.
 Subject
 Predicate
 Clause
 Phrase
 The part which names the person or thing we are speaking about
is________.
 Predicate
 Subject
 phrase
 clause
 Which of the following is a simple subject?
The young boy ate the red apple.
 The young boy
 Boy
 Red apple
 ate
 Which of the following is a simple predicate?
I need help with this math problem.
 I need
 Problem
 Need
 with
 Which of the following is a simple predicate?
Next week my grandmother is coming from Korea.
 My grandmother
 Is coming
 Coming from Korea
 korea
 Which of the following is a simple subject?
Our homeroom is having a pizza party tomorrow.
 Homeroom
 Pizza
 Our homeroom
 is having
 Which of the following is a simple subject?
The old hotel in the town center is going to be knocked down to make way for a
new shopping center.
 Old hotel
 Shopping center
 Hotel
 in the town
 Which of the following is a simple predicate?
A glacier is a river of ice moving slowly down a mountain.
 Moving
 Is
 Down
 river of ice
 Which of the following is a simple subject?
Waiting by the school gate in the rain was my mother.
 School gate
 My mother
 Mother
 gate
 Which of the following is a simple predicate?
Bad habits grow unconsciously.
 Bad habits
 Grow
 Habits
 bad
 Which of the following is a simple predicate?
Miss kitty was rude at the table one day.
 Miss kitty
 Was rude
 Was
 at the table
 Which of the following is a simple predicate?
I shot an arrow into the air.
 I shot
 Air
 Shot
 into the
 A simple subject is .
 a noun and a verb
 a noun or pronoun
 a verb
 an adjective

 In a sentence, what is the simple predicate?

 the noun
 the verb
 the adjective
 the pronoun
 In a sentence, what is the complete predicate?
 the words after the verb
 the verb
 the words before the verb
 the noun
 Which choice represents a complete subject?
 The dog and cat
 walked together all day
 dog and cat
 walked
 Identify the simple predicate in the sentence below.
Dexter and his friends waited for over an hour.
 waited for over an hour
 over an hour
 waited
 Dexter and his friends

 Identify the following groups of words as a SUBJECT, PREDICATE,

BOTH or NONE

dropped the ice cream

 Subject
 Predicate
 Both
 none
 A complete sentence must have:
 subject and article
 predicate and conjunction
 conjunction and article
 subject and predicate
 Find the subject and predicate in the following sentence.
My voice sounds terrible in the morning.
 sounds/terrible
 My/voice
 voice/sounds
 sounds/morning
 David drove to the grocery store to buy some milk.
What is the subject and predicate of this sentence?
 store/buy
 grocery/store
 David/milk
 David/drove
 What are the simple subject and simple predicate in the sentence below?
The sailboats were gliding across the ocean.
 sailboats/were gliding
 sailboats/across the ocean
 the sailboats/gliding across
 the sailboats/were across
 The ___________ tells what or whom the sentence is about.
 statement
 predicate
 command
 subject
 The is the action in the sentence.
 object
 subject
 predicate
 punctuation
 The tells what the subject does or is.
 predicate
 exclamation
 subject
 statement
 The consists of a verb and all the words that describe the verb
and complete its meaning.
 verb
 complete predicate
 simple subject
 simple predicate
 In a sentence, all the words that come before the verb are called the:
 simple subject
 simple predicate
 complete subject
 complete predicate
 A complete sentence has either a subject or a predicate.
 True
 False
 Doesn't know
 May be
 The subject of the sentence receives the action of the object.
 True
 False
 Partially true
 Doesn't know
 Choose the correct option.
1. The simple predicate, or verb, is the main word or word group that tells
something about the subject.
2. The predicate of a sentence tells something about the subject.
3. The subject tells whom or what the sentence is about.
 false; true; false
 true; true; false
 true; true; true
 An action verb tells what the subject has or does.
 True
 False
 doesn't know
 may be

 Find the noun of the SUBJECT and the verb of the PREDICATE in the
following sentence.
"An eager student practiced sports every day."
 student and practiced
 eager and day
 An and every
 student and every
 Identify the subject and the simple predicate of the following sentence.
The girl who is standing behind the wall, is my best friend.
 The girl/is
 Who/best friend
 Friend/is
 Girl/standing
 What is the simple subject and simple predicate in the sentence below?
He gave a ride on his new bike.
 Gave/ride
 new/bike
 he/new
 he/gave
 David drove to the grocery store to buy some milk.
What are the subject and predicate of this sentence?
 David, drove
 grocery, store
 David, milk
 store, buy
 Identify the subject and the simple predicate in the following sentence.
The house rocked back and forth during the hurricane.
 house/rocked
 hurricane/rocked
 house/during
 hurricane/during
 rocked/back
 Identify the subject and predicate in the following sentence:
The best shows on television this week were the ads.
 television, ads
 best shows, on
 shows, were
 on, television
 shows, this week
 Identify the complete predicate:
The tiny kittens crawled out of the basket.
 kittens crawled
 crawled out of the basket
 out of the basket
 crawled out
 Identify the complete predicate of the sentence.
The salesclerk smiled at Judy.
 The salesclerk
 salesclerk
 smiled at Judy
 smiled
 Can gerunds be subjects?
 Yes
 No
 may be
 sometimes
 The cat walked down the street.
In the sentence above, what is the complete predicate?
 The cat
 walked
 cat
 walked down the street
 Select the sentence in which the subject and the verb agree in number.
 The moon in the night sky are a beautiful sight.
 The moon in the night skies are a beautiful sight.
 The moon in the night sky is a beautiful sight.
 The moon in the night skies be a beautiful sight.

ANSWER KEY FOR SUBJECT & PREDECATE

 B

 A

 B

 B

 B

 A

 A

 A

 A

 B

 B

 C

 B
 A

 C

 B

 C

 B

 C

 C

 B

 B

 A

 A

 C

 B

 D

 C

 D

 A

 D

 C

 A

 B

 C

 B

 A
 C

 A

 A

 A

 D

 A

 A

 C

 B

 C

 A

 D

 C