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2 2 Nouns

Warm-up

Some students have written the given collective nouns wrongly. Help them to write these
correctly.

1. A team of cattle _____________________________________________
2. A panel of ships _____________________________________________

3. A fleet of actors, singers, etc. _____________________________________________
4. A class of directors _____________________________________________

5. A pair of stars _____________________________________________
6. A murder of people _____________________________________________

7. A crowd of hounds _____________________________________________

8 . A beehive of bees

The name of a person, place, animals or thing is called the noun. Anu, Mrs Banerjee, city, Taj Mahal,
lion, book, etc. are nouns

Nouns can be either countable or uncountable.

l The nouns that can be counted and have plural forms are called the countable nouns.
For example: car, cup, house, etc.
The nouns that cannot be counted and do not have plural forms are called the uncountable
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nouns. For example: wood, milk, air, etc.

These are different kinds of nouns.

Nouns

Concrete Abstract

Proper Common Material Collective

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