Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abstract Nouns
The composition of a noun is more than just a person, place or thing. Use this resource to study examples of nouns and their many uses.
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Grammar Monster: What Are Common Nouns? (With Examples)
Get a better understanding of nouns with definitions and examples of common nouns, examples of common and proper nouns, noun capitalization rules, common noun categories, and a video [5:21] on common and proper nouns.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Capitalization: Proper vs. Common Nouns and Adjectives
Learn how to distinguish proper nouns and adjectives from common ones so you will be able to capitalize them correctly. This tutorial gives several examples and detailed explanations. A brief quiz will check your understanding.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Grammar: Proper Noun or Common Noun Quiz
Label each underlined word as either a proper noun or a common noun in this twelve-question quiz.
TES Global
Tes: Nouns: Revision: Explanation Booklet
[Free Registration/Login Required] This seven-page resource provides definitions for different categories of nouns: common, proper, collective, hyphenated, compound, and abstract. Numerous examples with pictures are provided for each...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Identifying Nouns
This video lesson focuses on identifying what nouns are and the two types: common and proper. Real Player is required.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Noun Worksheets
In this learning module, students will learn more about different types of nouns. Video lessons and reinforcement worksheets are provided for the following: singular nouns, plural nouns, plural possessive nouns, common nouns, and proper...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the difference between common and proper nouns.
University College London
University College London: Noun Overview and Rules
Overview of nouns and rules for use. Contains information on forming plurals, count and noncount, pronouns, numerals as nouns, and gender. Exercises interspersed in material.
University of Texas at Austin
Intoduction to French Nouns
This concise overview of French nouns inncludes a general definition, examples of gender and number, count vs. mass and common vs. proper.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Common Noun
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a common noun in the context of a sentence.
Other
Grammaropolis: The Nouns
This is a lesson in nouns including defining nouns, common, proper, concrete, abstract, compound, and collective nouns. It defines each type, shows its use in a sentence, and provides examples.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: What Is a Noun?
[Free Registration/Login Required] What is a noun? Use this flipchart to learn the differences between common and proper nouns. See real life photos as well as illustrations to arrange in a graphic organizer. Use the Activotes to assess...
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Pearson Adult Learning Center: Common Nouns and Proper Nouns Quiz
A ten-question quiz where students are asked to choose a common noun for each proper noun provided and to choose a proper noun for each common noun provided. Immediate feedback is provided for each answer and a percentage score is...
University of Manchester
Children's University of Manchester: What Are Nouns?
In these interactive lessons you can learn all about different types of nouns including common, proper, concrete, abstract, count, non-count, and collective. Then play a noun game and take a quiz to show what you have learned.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Nouns
A complete tutorial on identifying and using nouns that starts with identifying the nouns in "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music. Includes links to other noun grammar pages.
University College London
University College London: Identify the Nouns
An exercise in identifying nouns by clicking on those appearing in a paragraph. Answers explained and link to more information provided. Browser must be enabled to JavaScript. Netscape browser recommended.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Parts of Speech Nouns
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students to understand the difference between common and proper nouns, plural and singular nouns, possessive nouns, and abstract, concrete, and collective nouns.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will recognize the definition of a noun, use the highlighter tool to find nouns in a sentence and recognize common and proper nouns.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Common, Proper, and Possessive Noun Worksheets
This resource looks at the different classifications of nouns - common, proper, and possessive. These worksheets help students understand the use of each of these different types of nouns.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Capitalization
This tutorial teaches standard rules of capitalization and common errors. It offers a PowerPoint presentation over the rules for capitalizing proper nouns and information on capitalizing abbreviations with examples. This is followed by...
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Grammar quizzes.com: Possessive Nouns: Indicating Possession
A series of carts containing rules and examples of possessives including singular and plural common nouns, proper nouns, inanimate nouns, days and holidays, and numbers and letters. A fourteen-question practice exercise follows the...
TES Global
Blendspace: Noun Types Review
A six-part learning module with links images, websites, slides, and a video on different types of nouns including common, proper, collective, verbal, compound, abstract, concrete, countable, and uncountable.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Making Proper Names Plural but Not Possessive
This tutorial explains how to make your last name plural when sending greetings from your entire family (or anytime you are talking about your entire family.) This is a very common grammatical problem, and it is explained clearly here....
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