Nouns

Question 1

Common nouns

Answer 1

are the labels of non-specific people, places or things, such as woman, town, week and ship.

Question 2

Proper nouns

Answer 2

are the labels given to particular people, places or things, such as Cleopatra, Glasgow, Wednesday and Titanic.

Question 3

Concrete nouns

Answer 3

refer to people and things which can be experienced/or touched in the physical world such as banana, singer, ball and Birmingham.

Question 4

Abstract nouns

Answer 4

refer to emotions, concepts and qualities such as happiness, velocity, fear, month and expectation.

Question 5

Collective nouns

Answer 5

these can be concrete nouns which refer to groups such as herd, flock, team and committee.

Question 6

Count nouns

Answer 6

refer to individual units which can be counted. E.G. tree, table and teacher. These can have a plural form.

Question 7

Non-count nouns

Answer 7

refer to things which normally exist only as a mass or single entity. E.G. air, music, milk and spaghetti. These do not normally have a plural form.

Question 8

Pre-modifiers

Answer 8

these come before the noun e.g a sign that reads Dangerous Animal.

Question 9

Post-modifiers

Answer 9

these come after the noun e.g Examination in progress.