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Grammar Practice Worksheets

Nouns are a basic part of speech in a language. Nouns are persons, places, things, ideas, or concepts. Nouns may
function as the subject of a sentence, as the object of a verb, or as the object of prepositions.

There are four types of nouns:

1. Common nouns are words for general people, places, or things.
book, remote control, window, cafeteria, teller, teacher, street, car, police officer

2. Proper nouns are names of specific people, places, or things. They always begin with a capital letter.
Veronica, Prof. Lenore Sinclair, Chile, Seoul, Disneyland, the New York Times, Boardwalk Empire, Jennifer Lopez, the
Braden’s [notice that when the is used with a proper noun, it is usually in the lower case (not capitalized)]

3. Collective nouns are singular words that refer to groups of people or animals. They are either common or proper.
team, family, committee, congress, herd (of cows), the Rodriguez family, the New York Yankees

4. Abstract nouns are words for ideas or concepts. We know they exist, but we can’t use our senses (touch, hearing,
sight, taste, smell) to find them.
love, hate, honesty, faith, freedom, patience, joy, responsibility, fidelity, dislike, loyalty

Count Nouns
Count (or countable) nouns are simple to count. They may be singular or plural. For singular count nouns, use a, an,
the, or one. For plural count nouns, use a number, the article the, or no article. You may also use quantity words (a lot,
a little, some, many). Never use a or an with a plural noun.

Singular Plural
a cat cats
an orange two oranges
one soldier 15 soldiers
the recipe the recipes

Non-Count Nouns
Non-count nouns are things that we generally do not count. Non-count nouns are always singular. Do not use an article
with count nouns. You may use quantity words (a lot, a little, and especially some). Certain categories of nouns are
usually non-count.

Abstract ideas and feelings

advice beauty faith freedom happiness hate honesty
information intelligence joy love luck news vocabulary work

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School subjects
biology criminal justice economics English gymnastics mathematics
physics psychology Spanish statistics wellness writing

Terms composed of tiny parts

coffee flour jewelry hair money pepper
rice salt sand sugar tea

Collective nouns referring to things

clothing food furniture garbage homework jewelry snow
mail (note: email is a count noun) money music rain traffic

Several food items

bread butter cheese chocolate fish fruit meat
pasta soup water

Minerals
copper gold iron silver steel
tin

Liquids and gases

air beer milk oil oxygen
pollution soup water wind

Measure words:
To talk about quantities with non-count nouns, use a/an/the + measure word + of + non-count noun.

a glass of milk an ounce of gold a bag of flour

a pound of coffee four gallons of water two pounds of sugar

Measure words include: bottle, bowl, box, bunch, can, container, cup, glass, jar, loaf, piece, pound, slice, tablespoon,
teaspoon.

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Exercise 1:
Read the nouns below. Decide if each noun is a count (C) or non-count (N) noun. Write the correct letter
next to each word.

1. ____ advice 2. ____ program 3. ____ news

4. ____ necklace 5. ____ color 6. ____ orange
7. ____ email 8. ____ hope 9. ____ ring
10. ____ file 11. ____ hate 12. ____ jewelry
13. ____ information 14. ____ partner 15. ____ music

Exercise 2:
Read the nouns below. Decide if each noun is a count (C) or non-count (N) noun. Write the correct letter
next to each word.

1. ____ cheese 2. ____ economics 3. ____ boy

4. ____ watch 5. ____ rain 6. ____ season
7. ____ trash 8. ____ snow 9. ____ work
10. ____ garbage 11. ____ raindrop 12. ____ homework
13. ____ information 14. ____ faith 15. ____ essay

Exercise 3:
Read the nouns below. Decide if each noun is a count (C) or non-count (N) noun. Write the correct letter
next to each word.

1. ____ flour 2. ____ economics 3. ____ ocean

4. ____ leaf 5. ____ bag 6. ____ sleet
7. ____ milk 8. ____ soldier 9. ____ children
10. ____ roll 11. ____ snowflake 12. ____ fidelity
13. ____ loyalty 14. ____ impatience 15. ____ peach

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Exercise 4:
Place one of the words on the list before the nouns below. Use each word only once.

piece / can / loaf / container / bottle / glass / box / gallon / pound / bowl

1. _____________ coffee 2. ______________ milk 3. _____________ cereal

4. ______________ cookies 5. _____________ yogurt 6. ______________ bread
7. _____________ gas 8. ______________ peas 9. _____________ beer
10. ______________candy

Exercise 5:
Error Correction. Rewrite the correct sentence below.

1. The news on Channel 46 are always bad.

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2. Rosa’s hairs are long and blonds and her clothes is very stylish.
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3. The advisor gave me the wrong informations. Her advises were incorrect.
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4. I bought two cheeses and 3 milks.
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5. Henry drank two coffees.
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6. Statistics are a difficult class.
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7. Hye Lim has a strong faith.
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8. The sands on Waikiki Beach are golden.
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9. Jim gave his girlfriend two golds for her birthday.
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10. The clothing in the new store at the mall are very expensive.
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