Kinds of Nouns Grade 4 2013-2014

What are NOUNS for?

Study these examples:

1. Mary ate a bowl of delicious soup. The nouns are Mary, bowl and soup.

2. Our new baby was born in the hospital on Friday.

The nouns are baby, hospital and Friday.

Let's practice finding NOUNS.

Remember, a NOUN is a name of person, place, thing or idea.

Let’s first recall what nouns are!In order to go through your

activity properly, let us recall first what nouns are!

For this part, Annie and Moby will join us once again!

More Practice!

Read and understand pages 2-3 of your textbook.Then, answer pages 3-4 (Exercises A and B only).

Since NOUNS are EVERYWHERE. They are easier to identify through their classifications or kinds.

There are 7 kinds of nouns:

1.Proper Nouns 5. Abstract Nouns2.Common Nouns 6. Concrete Nouns3.Count Nouns 7. Collective Nouns4.Mass Nouns

Common NounA noun that names any:•person•place•thing•idea

Proper NounA noun that names a specific:•person•place •thing•idea

MarioMario

Happy Valley Happy Valley ChurchChurch

Mr. Gatti’s PizzaMr. Gatti’s Pizza

Newton’s Theory of GravityNewton’s Theory of Gravity

Here are some more examples of common and proper nouns:

Common Proper country Philippines

president Ninoy Aquino

teacher Mrs. Ibarra

game Monopoly

museum National Museum

song Born This Way

lawyer Attorney Trina Legarda

Notice that because proper nouns name specific people, places, or things, they are

all CAPITALIZED.

Are you ready for a practice?

Read and understand page 7 of your textbook. Then, answer page 8 (Exercises A and B only).

Let us try this! Can you substitute

appropriate proper nouns to the underlined common nouns?

1. The teacher prepares for her next class.

2. She needs to give one student a make-up test.

More Practice!

Answer page 9 of your textbook, Exercise C only.

teacher sand

table soil

garbage can gas

poster hair

trees grain

bag water

Look at the table below. What do you notice with their grouping?

The nouns in the 1st column are what we call count (countable) nouns or names of people, places, things that we can count.

teacher

table

garbage can

poster

trees

bag

What do the nouns in the first column have in common?

Numerals like one, two and three or articles such as a and an are put before these nouns to indicate their numbers.

Examples:1.a book (pertaining to one book)2.two villages3.seven dwarfs4.twelve apostles5.four pencils

Nouns such as gas, sand and soil cannot be counted.

What do we call these kinds of nouns?

Mass nouns are names of uncountable things that we look upon as one big mass.

sand

soil

gas

hair

grain

water

How about the nouns in the 2nd column?

Let’s Practice!

Read pages 11-12 silently. Then, answer pages 12-13 of your textbook, Exercise A only.

We cannot say one pastas, three waters, twelve juices

So How do you count mass nouns?

You can't, but you can measure them.

What can you use to measure nouns that are uncountable?

For mass nouns, we use counters!

Noun counters are measuring devices we use to quantify mass nouns.

•Containers are form of counters. Remember that the nouns you're counting do not take the plural form. The container does.

Examples:

a box of cereal

six buckets of water

Seven cans of Coke

Eight cartons of milk

Nine cups of coffee

Ten glasses of water

Eleven jars of honey

A dozen packets of butter

•You can measure a mass noun to count it but the measurement takes the plural form not the noun.

Examples:

Two liters of milk

Five kilos of butter

•You can measure mass nouns using shapes or portions but once again the measurement takes the plural form.

Examples: Two pinches of salt

Five slices of cake

Fourteen spoonfuls of sugar

How much _______? = uncountable nouns

Example: How much coffee do you drink?

How many _______? = countable nouns

Example: How many cups of coffee do you drink?

Look at the following table:

Let’s Practice!Give an appropriate counter for the following nouns.

1. bread2. oil3. meat4. pasta5. rice

Let’s Practice!

Answer pages 13-14 of your textbook, Exercises B and C only.

Identify the mass nouns that do not have appropriate counters.

1. a. five kilos of riceb. strands of hairc. four gallons of salt

2. a. a bag of teab. two liters of paintc. a slice of milk

3. a. eleven tanks of oxygenb. nine bottles of meatc. three kilos of rice

4. a. a basket of vinegarb. a sack of cementc. eight ounces of soda

5. a. a cup of coffee

b. seven cans of butterc. a box of soap

Identifying count and mass nouns would make us communicate our ideas better!

Imagine saying milks, salts or butters! Obviously these nouns are in incorrect forms because they are mass nouns that need counters for measurement.

Why do we need to distinguish count nouns from mass nouns?

MEMO:

1. No classes tom. due to Prayer Rally.

2. No clubs on Friday. Dismissal at 12:10 PM.

3. No. of order for class picture: _____

Amount to be paid: ______

4. ENGLISH=Answer pages 13- 14 of your textbook, Exercises B and C.