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Activities with Nouns

1. Copy all these activities and paste them into a new word document.

Then underline the nouns in this passage.

Mum and Dad, Clare and Hugh, went for a drive to Lara, an small town near Geelong. They were looking for a breeder who sold border collie pups. Clare and Hugh could hardly contain their excitement as the city gave way to larger blocks, more and more trees and the occasional farm.

2. Copy this table below into the same word document, then type the plurals of each word in the empty boxes.

Singular Plural
baby
mouse
wolf
knife
loaf


3. Jobs that people do are nouns.

Beneath your table, write the names of six jobs that you know.

4. Underline the proper nouns.

Jay, Simba, telephone, February, choir, Zimbabwe

5. Underline the collective nouns.

Eagle, flight, herd, ambulance, team, Sharon, army

6. Underline the common nouns.

Elephant, Diane, bottle, Anzacs, glue, dog, cloud, pencil

7. Match the common nouns to their matching collective nouns

mob, army, pride, school, bunch, stack

Noun Collective noun
lions
flowers
soldiers
wood
fish
sheep