This PPT includes about the Nouns, Rules of nouns and Types of nouns with Worksheet.

1. Nouns
- Swati Malik

2. What is noun ?
A word that is the name of a thing, an idea, a place or a person.
Singular nouns
A noun that denotes one person or a thing.
For eg. - pen, boy, bag, cat

3. Plural Nouns
A noun that denotes to or more than two persons or thing.
For eg. Bags, boys, pens

4. Q1) Change singular nouns to plural nouns:
1) Bag - ________
2) Pen - ________
3) Boy - ________
4) Chair - ________
5) Table - ________

5. Rules of Plural nouns

6. Rules Singular Plural
1) General Rule Most nouns are made plural
by adding ‘s’ to the end of
singular form.
a) Car
b) Bag
c) Chair
a) Cars
b) Bags
c) Chairs
Nouns ending in ‘s’ ‘x’ ‘z’
‘ch’ ‘sh’ ‘ss’
Add ‘es’ a) Bus
b) Bench
c) Box
d) Bush
a) Buses
b) Benches
c) Boxes
d) Bushes
Nouns ending in ‘f’ ‘fe’ Add ‘ves’ a) Calf
b) Shelf
c) Wolf
a) Calves
b) Shelves
c) Wolves
Nouns ending with ‘o’ i) Nouns end in ‘o’
proceeded by a vowel made
plural by adding ‘s’
a) Radio
b) Stereo
c) Video
a) Radios
b) Stereos
c) Videos
ii)Nouns that end in ‘o’
proceeded by consonant
are made plural by adding
‘es’
a) Potato
b) Hero
a) Potatoes
b) Heroes

7. Rules Singular Plural
Nouns ending in ‘y’ i) When the ‘y’ follows a
consonant changing ‘y’ to
‘i’ and adding ‘es’
a) City
b) Candy
c) Lady
a) Cities
b) Candies
c) Ladies
ii) When the ‘y’ follows a
vowel, the plural is formed
by retaining ‘y’ and adding
‘s’
a) Day
b) Toy
c) Donkey
a) Days
b) Toys
c) Donkeys

8. Q2) Change singular nouns to plural nouns according to the rules:
a) Radio - _______
b) Video - _______
c) Calf - _______
d) Shelf - _______
e) Bus - _______
f) Box - ______
g) Potato - _______
h) Tomato - _______
i) City - ______
j) Day - ______

9. Types of Nouns

10. 1) Common noun
A common noun is a non- specific person, place or thing
For eg. Girl, boy, country, animal, people, city, state, book, months, cat, dog etc.
2) Proper noun
Names of people, places or a thing is a proper noun.
For eg. Shruti, Radha, Ram, Sita, November, January

11. Q3) Identify common nouns and proper nouns
a) Girl - ______
b) Shyam - _____
c) Mother- _____
d) City - _______
e) Animal - ________
f) Cat - ________
g) July - _______
h) India - _______

12. 3) Abstract noun
Abstract nouns are the nouns which can only be felt, but cant be touched.
For eg. honesty, kindness, truth, courage, sadness, strength, happiness, weakness, luck, anger,
hope, idea, etc
4) Collective noun
A collective noun denotes a group of individuals
For eg. A boquet of flowers
A flock of sheep
A herd of deer

13. 5) Material noun
A material noun is the name of material existing in nature.
For eg. Gold, cotton, iron, milk, diamond, mercury, coal, silver, wood, cement

14. Q4) Identify collective , abstract and material nouns:
a) honesty - _________
b) A herd of sheep - ________
c) A boquet of flowers - _______
d) diamond - _______
e) gold - _______
f) sadness- ______