Kinds of Noun

KINDS OF NOUN
Grade 4
• Jade Allen Cordova, LPT

Ready for a Game?
1. You will need your English notebook and a pen.
2. Objective of the game: Write ten most unique nouns that you can see
outside the classroom. Nouns that are common to all groups’ lists will be
wiped out.
3. You are just allowed to around the corridor and playground for 3 minutes.
4. Refrain from running and shouting as you are having the activity.
5. Once teacher calls, line up by twos.
Let’s first recall what nouns are!
In order to go through the activity

properly, let us recall first what nouns
are!
Let’s practice finding NOUNS!
Remember, a NOUN is a name of person,

place, thing or idea.
Study these examples:

1. Mary ate a bowl of delicious soup.
The nouns are Mary, bowl, and soup.
2. Our new baby was born in the
hospital on Friday.
The nouns are baby, hospital and Friday.
Let us identify the nouns in the following
sentences.
• 1. Cats and dogs make fun pets.
• 2. Kate has a beautiful dress.
• 3. Mr. & Mrs. Jones went to the store and ate ice cream.
• 4. Maggie reads some very interesting articles in that magazine.
• 5. Greg plays football every Saturday.
Since NOUNS are EVERYWHERE. They are easier to identify
through their classifications or kinds.
There are 8 kinds of noun:
• 1. Proper Nouns • 5. Abstract Nouns

• 2. Common Nouns • 6. Concrete Nouns
• 3. Count Nouns • 7. Collective Nouns
• 4. Mass (uncountable) Nouns • 8. Possessive Nouns
A noun A noun
that that
names names a
any: specific:
 Person  Person
 Place  Place
 Thing  Thing
 Idea  idea
Here are some more examples of common
and proper nouns:
Common Proper
• country • Philippines
• president • Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
• teacher • Ms. Jade Allen Cordova
• game • Mobile Legend/Monopoly
• song • Born This Way
Note that as common nouns neither
president, doctor nor uncle is capitalized.
• For example, if I say: • But if I say:
I am going to my uncle’s house. I am going to my Uncle Ray’s
I am not naming a specific uncle, so house.
“uncle” is not capitalized. I am naming a specific person, and
uncle is his title, so uncle is
capitalized.
Rule: When a common noun is used in front of a person’s name as a title, you MUST capitalize it.
Are you ready for a practice?
• 1. Bring out your notebook and pen.
• 2. In one column, write down 10 common nouns. (2 minutes)
• 3. With the signal of your teacher, quietly stand up. Have your pen with
you.
• 4. Exchange the notebook to your seat mate. Write an appropriate proper
noun on the notebook of your seat mate.
• 5. Remember that PROPER NOUNS must be written in a capital letter.
Look at the table below. What do you notice
with their grouping?
What do the nouns in the first column have
in common?
• The nouns in the first
column are what we call
count (countable) nouns
or names of people,
places, things that we can
count.
How about the nouns in the second column?
• Nouns such as gas, sand and soil

cannot be counted.
• What do we call these nouns?
• Mass nouns (uncountable nouns)
are names of uncountable things
that we look upon as one big
mass.
• We cannot say one gas, three sands, twelve soils.
• So how do you count mass nouns?
• You can’t , but you can measure them.
• What can you use to measure nouns that are countable?
• For mass nouns, we use counters/quantifiers.
• Examples:
• A box of cereal Six buckets of water
Lists of counters:
• Cans • You can measure mass nouns using shapes
and portions but the nouns counter takes
• Cartons
the plural form.
• Cups
• Glasses • Example:
• Jars
• Packets • Two pinches of salt
• Liters • Five slices of cake
• Kilos • Fourteen spoonfuls of sugar
Let’s Practice!
Give an appropriate counter for the following nouns.
• 1. bread • 6. powdered soap

• 2. oil • 7. salt and pepper
• 3. meat • 8. margarine
• 4. wine • 9. vinegar
• 5. rice • 10. tea
Identify the mass nouns that do NOT have
appropriate counters.
• 1. a. five kilos of rice 3. a. eleven tanks of
oxygen
• b. strands of hair b. nine
bottles of meat
• c. four gallons of salt c. three kilos of
rice
• 2. a. a bag of tea 4. a. a basket
of vinegar
• b. two liters of paint b. a
sack of cement
The Collective Noun
• The collective noun is one collection of many parts.
The big question is, “Are collective nouns
singular or plural?”
Collective nouns are plural
Collective nouns are singular when the individual members
when the group (or unit or of the collection are acting
collection) is acting as one: individually.
• Example:
• Example:
• The faculty meets every Tuesday at
3:30. • Every Tuesday, the faculty give their
reports.
• (The group is acting as one.) • (The members of the faculty are giving
individual reports, acting individually.)
Are the following units acting as groups or
individuals? Choose the appropriate verbs.
• 1. The jury (announce, announces) the decision).
• 2. The jury (is, are) taking their seats.
• 3. The class (is, are) answering the 1st Trim Examinations.
• 4. The class (is, are) practicing for their Buwan ng Wika presentations.
• 5. The team eagerly (wait, waits) for the announcement.
Possessive Nouns
• A possessive noun is a noun indicating ownership (or possession) by
ending 's or just an apostrophe.
Possessive nouns are common
Sometimes, possessive nouns in time expressions (or
are clearly not about "temporal expressions" as
possession. they're also known).
• The Children's Minister • A day's salary
(This is a minister for children's • Two days' salary

affairs. The minister does not belong • Three years' insurance
to the children.) • Three years' insurance

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KINDS OF NOUN

• Jade Allen Cordova, LPT

In order to go through the activity

Remember, a NOUN is a name of person,

Study these examples:

• 1. Proper Nouns • 5. Abstract Nouns

• Nouns such as gas, sand and soil

• So how do you count mass nouns?

• You can’t , but you can measure them.

• What can you use to measure nouns that are countable?

• For mass nouns, we use counters/quantifiers.

• 1. bread • 6. powdered soap

• The Children's Minister • A day's salary

(This is a minister for children's • Two days' salary

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