Parts of Speech


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nouns

  • A noun is the name of something. A common noun is the name of a general thing: ice cream, dog, cat and pen are all everyday nouns.
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  • A concrete noun is something you can see, hear, smell feel or taste:
    • It was a very tasty pizza dripping with cheese, ham and pineapple.
    • It was a vanilla ice cream.
    • She wore a woolly cardigan.
  • An abstract noun is an idea, feeling or quality that you cannot touch. It is something you cannot see, smell, touch or taste. For example: loneliness, politeness, happiness, sadness, faith, courage, embarrassment, bitterness.
  • You can look up words using an online dictionary such as www.askoxford.com
  • Click here for an activity.

common and abstract nouns activity

  • Activity two: make a list of all the common nouns you see.
  • Activity three: make a list of all of the abstract nouns you
  • see. Do you notice anything about them?
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  • Click here for the answers
  • Activity one: look at this piece of writing.
  • “She had no more clean dishes, clean knives or clean forks.
  • Although she was not known for her tidiness, the house was unusually
  • messy today. Rather than do the cleaning and cook a meal, Bev
  • decided she would go out and get a takeaway. She had had too many
  • late nights and her tiredness was making it harder to cope with the
  • housework.”

common and abstract nouns - answers

  • “She had no more clean dishes, clean knives or clean forks.
  • Although she was not known for her tidiness, the house was
  • unusually messy today. Rather than do the cleaning and cook a meal,
  • Bev decided she would go out and get a takeaway. She had had too
  • many late nights and her tiredness was making it harder to cope
  • with the housework.”
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  • Common nouns: dishes, knives, forks, house, takeaway, housework, today, meal, nights
  • Abstract nouns: tidiness, tiredness
  • Adjectives: happy sad weak good ready tidy forgetful
  • Activity: turn the adjectives in the box into nouns by adding a –ness ending e.g. sadness.
  • Remember that when words end in ‘y’ you should change the ‘y’ into an ‘i’ e.g. readiness.
  • Extra activity: put two of these words into sentences of your own.
  • turning adjectives into nouns
  • She was a happy girl but she could also be a weak person.
  • (Happy and weak are used here to describe the girl’s character).
  • Click here to return to the main page ‘parts of speech’

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