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Warm-up
Read the given nouns. Write P for proper nouns, C for common nouns, M for material nouns,
A for abstract nouns, and C for collective nouns.
1. love ___________ 2. Friday ___________ 3. team ___________
4. water ___________ 5. boy ___________ 6. class ___________
A noun is the name of a person, place, animal, thing, quality, feeling, an action or art.
Our beautiful world contains a plenty of things. These things fall into several classes—people,
places, objects and materials. All these things are made up of matter. So they have concrete forms.
But a few things have no concrete forms. They have no bodies either, so they are abstract.
We can simply feel or think of them. Such things include qualities, feelings, actions, states, arts,
skills, etc.
Nouns can be concrete or abstract.
Concrete Nouns
A. Study the following sentences carefully.
1. Ms Sharma is a famous doctor.
2. The postman is a useful public servant.
Words shown in colour are the names used for people. Some of these names
are particular while others are common.
B. Study the following sentences carefully.
1. Paris is a large city.
2. Our school is near the post office.
Words shown in colour are the names used for places. Some of these names are particular while
others are common.
C. Study the following sentences carefully.
1. The dog is a faithful animal.
2. Cows and goats are milch animals.
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