3. A noun can be of following two types:
Common Noun- A words that refers to a group of person, place, animal or thing is common noun.
A few examples of common nouns are, girl, boy, birds, sea, pond, pencil, etc.
Proper Nouns: Noun- A words that refers to a particular of person, place, or thing is proper noun. They start with
capital letter.
Punjab, Akaash, Gurdeep, Ganga, Neem tree, Samsung phone etc.
4. Time to practice.
Circle the words in the following sentences that are common nouns, and underline the words that are proper
nouns.
1. A woman has two children.
2. I lost my pencil box.
3. The boys are playing on the ground.
4. India is the second most populated country.
5. Grand trunk road is the oldest highway in India.
6. Sachin Tendulkar is a famous cricket player.
5. Besideabove two nounscan furtherdivided in totwo types:
Singular Noun-
A words that refers to one person, place, animal or thing is singular noun.
A few examples are, girl, boy, bird, sea, pond, pencil, etc.
Plural Nouns-
A words that refers to more than one person, place, or thing is plural noun. A few examples are, girls, boys, birds,
ponds, pencils, etc.
6. Singular Plural
Bird birds
Game games
Cup cups
Tap taps
River rivers
Book books
Pen pens
Plate plates
Singular Plural
Life Lives
Knife knives
Thief thieves
wife wives
wolf wolves
Loaf loaves
calf calves
shelf shelves
Set ofrulesfor writing plural form ofa singular noun-
8. Now from above examples we can derive formula for writing plural forms.
1. When a word end sound is consonant like “ d, g, k, l, m, n, p, r, t” or vowel like “ee” we add “s” at the end.
2. When a word ends with consonant “f” then we replace “f” with “ves”.
3. When a word ends with “ch, sh, ss, x, o” then we add “es” at the end.
4. When a word end with “y” then we replace “y” with “ies”.
5. When a word has “oo” in the middle then we replace “oo” with “ee”.
6. Some other words with exception of above rules are children, men, women, people, swine, mice, and lice.
9. Time to practice.
Circle plural nouns and underline singular nouns in the following sentences. Write those words and change
them into their singular/plural form.
1. Siya picks tomatoes from the tree in her backyard.
2. The crayons in my box are broken.
3. It is good to eat a lot of fruits in the summer.
4. Shauna likes to buy stickers for her scrapbook.
5. All the little girls like to play with dolls.
6. Most boys like to play outside.
7. We should always wash our hands before and after eating.
8. I need a knife to cut this string.
