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Practise What You Know!actise What You Know!

Put the given nouns into their respective columns.
author milk hatred class India

John teacher team clay kindness
fleet mercy student New Delhi gold

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Let’s Learn Nouns

A noun is a word that refers to a person, a place, a thing, a quality or an activity. For
example:
Shruti is standing there. His anger disgusts everybody.
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The Taj Mahal is in Agra.
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In the above sentences:
Shruti is the name of a person. The Taj Mahal is the name of a thing.
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Agra is the name of a place. Anger is the name of a feeling.
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Nouns

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Let’s Learn Common Nouns

Common nouns are common names of people, places, animals or things. For example:
The boy is going to Kites are flying in the His pen has fallen on
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school. sky. the floor.

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