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Practice Time 1
A. State whether each of the following nouns are proper or common noun.
1. Chair ________________ 2. Daughter ________________
3. Mr John ________________ 4. School ________________
5. Kolkata ________________ 6. Book ________________
7. Doctor ________________ 8. Beach ________________
9. Dictionary ________________ 10. Simran ________________
11. Market ________________ 12. Holi ________________
B. Fill in the blanks with the correct collective nouns given in brackets.
1. A ___________ of mice nibbles each and everything at
my home. (pack/troop/colony)
2. I bought a ___________ of flowers for my teacher. (clutch/bouquet/pack)
3. The ___________ of puppies was very playful. (brood/litter/herd)
4. I saw a __________ of eggs in the store room. (crowd/clutch/colony)
5. A ___________ of cows was grazing in the field. (bury/herd/brood)
6. A ___________ of singers performed well at the function. (swarm/band/choir)
7. The fox was hungrily looking at the ________ of grapes. (bouquet/bunch/bevy)
Countable Nouns
A countable noun is a noun that can be counted. It has both singular and plural
forms.
Read the following sentences.
The class has many chairs.
O
I have a doll.
O
Nouns O They are friends.
Those are mango trees.
O
We can say one chair or two chairs.
Similarly, we can say one doll or three dolls, one friend or two friends, one tree or
many trees.
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