CBSE Class 6 English Nouns Worksheet Set 01

Answer: weakness, boldness, goodness, calmness, foolishness. Each word simply takes -ness, and the spelling does not change.

Teacher's Note:
1. A suffix changes the word class.
2. Check the spelling of the new word.

Answer: greatness, brightness, whiteness, cheapness, sweetness. Adding -ness turns an adjective into a noun for the quality.

Teacher's Note:
1. A suffix changes the word class.
2. Check the spelling of the new word.

Answer: beauty, cleanliness, difference, distance, friendship (or friendliness). Many abstract nouns need a spelling change, so learn each one.

Teacher's Note:
1. A suffix changes the word class.
2. Check the spelling of the new word.

Answer: goodness, health, hunger, importance, independence. Endings such as -ance, -ence and -ness are common.

Teacher's Note:
1. A suffix changes the word class.
2. Check the spelling of the new word.

Answer: loveliness, patience, safety, warmth, wit. Words that end in -y often change to -i or are replaced.

Teacher's Note:
1. A suffix changes the word class.
2. Check the spelling of the new word.

Answer: reaction, collection, correction, prevention. The suffix -ion turns these verbs into nouns.

Teacher's Note:
1. A suffix changes the word class.
2. Check the spelling of the new word.

Answer: advise, complete, conclude, encourage, inform. Remove or change the ending to get back to the verb.

Teacher's Note:
1. A suffix changes the word class.
2. Check the spelling of the new word.

Answer: occupy, separate, convert, recite, perform. Notice the ending -ation or -ance disappears.

Teacher's Note:
1. A suffix changes the word class.
2. Check the spelling of the new word.

Answer: evaporation, condensation, circulation, solution, love. Love is both a verb and a noun, so the word stays the same.

Teacher's Note:
1. A suffix changes the word class.
2. Check the spelling of the new word.

Answer: Examples: The news is good today. Measles is a disease that spreads quickly. Both nouns end in -s but take a singular verb.

Teacher's Note:
1. News and measles look plural but are singular.
2. Use is, not are, with them.

Answer: Examples: My spectacles are on the table. The furniture in the room is new. Spectacles takes a plural verb, and furniture is uncountable and takes a singular verb.

Teacher's Note:
1. Spectacles is always plural.
2. Furniture has no plural form.

Answer: Examples: There are many fish in the lake. Indians celebrate Diwali with lights. Fish stays the same in the plural, and Indians is a plural proper noun.

Teacher's Note:
1. Fish is unchanged in the plural when it means many of one kind.
2. Indians takes a capital letter.

Answer: Ravi's bat; the boy's parents; the boys' parents; the policemen's jeep. Add 's to a singular or an irregular plural, and only an apostrophe to a regular plural.

Teacher's Note:
1. Check whether the owner is singular or plural.
2. Regular plurals ending in -s only take an apostrophe.

Answer: the Governor of Goa's visit; a week's holiday; twenty minutes' walk; my sister-in-law's photo. Time expressions take the apostrophe too.

Teacher's Note:
1. Add the mark at the end of the whole phrase.
2. Plural time words take only an apostrophe.

Answer: the Mehtas' flat; Jane Austen's novels; children's playground; the new students' party. Children is irregular so it takes 's.

Teacher's Note:
1. Irregular plurals take 's.
2. A family name in plural takes only an apostrophe.

Answer: Dan and John's bakery; Mr. James's motorbike; Charlie Chaplin's movies; the boss's orders. When two people share one thing, only the last name takes 's.

Teacher's Note:
1. Joint ownership uses one 's.
2. James's and boss's are both acceptable.

Answer: (a) bushes. A hedge is a row of bushes.

Teacher's Note:
1. Collective nouns name groups.
2. Learn them in pairs with the group.

Answer: (a) drawers. Chest of drawers is the usual furniture phrase.

Teacher's Note:
1. This phrase is a fixed expression.
2. Drawers is plural.

Answer: (a) ships. A fleet is a group of ships (it can also be vehicles).

Teacher's Note:
1. Fleet also applies to cars and taxis.
2. Ships is the best choice here.

Answer: (a) bees. A swarm is a large group of insects such as bees.

Teacher's Note:
1. Sheep form a flock.
2. Swarm also suits ants and locusts.

Answer: (a) sparrows. A host of sparrows is the traditional collective phrase.

Teacher's Note:
1. Crows go in a murder.
2. Host means a large number.

Answer: (a) pack. Playing cards come in a pack.

Teacher's Note:
1. Flock is used for birds and sheep.
2. A pack can also be of dogs.

Answer: (a) fish. Fish swim together in a shoal.

Teacher's Note:
1. Birds fly in a flock.
2. Shoal is for fish.

Answer: (a) singers. A choir is a group of singers.

Teacher's Note:
1. A choir performs together.
2. Painters do not form a choir.

Answer: (a) ants. We say an army of ants for a large moving group.

Teacher's Note:
1. Ants work in large groups.
2. Army suggests a huge number.

Answer: (a) elephants. Elephants move in herds, while lions form a pride.

Teacher's Note:
1. Herd suits grazing animals.
2. Lions live in a pride.