8th Class English Noun Practice Exercise

Find the kind of noun underline sentence has  

  Maruti is the most popular car in India.

Answer: Proper Noun: A proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or things. So, Maruti is a name of a particular car (things).  

  Karan is a naughty boy.

Answer: Common Noun: A common noun is shared in common by every person, place or thing of the same class or kind. So, boy is the class of person.  

  Gold and Silver are used to make jewellery.

Answer: Material Noun: A material noun is the noun that exists only in the form of a mass and cannot be counted. So, gold and silver are in the form of a mass and cannot be counted.  

  Honesty is the best policy.

Answer: Abstract Noun: An abstract noun is the name of some state, quality, feeling or idea that we can only think of or feel but cannot touch or See.  

Read the noun of the underlined word:      

  Milk is a complete food.

(A) Common Noun                                         

(B) Proper Noun

(C) Collective Noun                                        

(D) Material Noun

(E) None of these

Answer: (d)

Explanation: Milk is a material noun. A Material Noun is the name of a substance which can be measured or weighed.  

  A clump of tree.

(A) Material Noun                                          

(B) Proper Noun

(C) Common Noun                                         

(D) Collective Noun

(E) None of these

Answer: (d)

Explanation: Clump is a Collective Noun. A Collective Noun is the group or collection of things.    

• Noun is the name of a person, place, animal, bird or thing.
• A Proper Noun is the name of a particular person, place, thing or animal.
• A Common Noun is the name given to the class of person, place, animal or thing.
• A Collective Noun is the name of a group or collection of person, things or animals.
• A Material Noun is the name of a substance which can be measured or weighed.
• An Abstract Noun is the name of some state, quality, feeling or idea that we can only think of or feel but cannot touch or see.
• All Common Nouns and Collective Nouns are regarded as countable.
• Proper Nouns are also countable.
• Abstract Nouns and Material Nouns are normally uncountable.