CBSE Class 8 English Advanced Noun MCQs Set 01

Answer: (d) Wood

Explanation:
1. A material noun names the substance from which things are made.
2. Wood is the material of which furniture and doors are made.
3. 'Sink' and 'does' are verbs and 'in' is a preposition, so the answer is Wood.

Teacher's Note:
1. Ask: is it a substance such as gold, iron, cotton or wood? If yes, it is a material noun.
2. Check the other options: sink and does are verbs here.

Answer: (b) Crowd

Explanation:
1. A collective noun names a group of persons or things taken together as one whole.
2. A crowd is a group of people, so Crowd is the collective noun.
3. 'Street' is a common noun, 'main' is an adjective and 'on' is a preposition.

Teacher's Note:
1. Words such as team, class, flock and crowd name groups.
2. Notice the singular verb 'was': the group is treated as one unit.

Answer: (a) Beauty

Explanation:
1. An abstract noun names a quality, feeling or idea that we cannot see or touch.
2. Beauty is a quality, so it is an abstract noun.
3. 'Skin' is a common noun, 'is' is a verb and 'deep' is an adjective. The answer is Beauty.

Teacher's Note:
1. You can feel or think of beauty, honesty, anger or wisdom, but you cannot touch them.
2. Many abstract nouns are formed from adjectives: beautiful, beauty.

Answer: (a) Furniture

Explanation:
1. Furniture is an uncountable noun. It has no plural form and takes a singular verb.
2. Knife, baby and chair are countable and have the plurals knives, babies and chairs.
3. So the answer is Furniture.

Teacher's Note:
1. Say 'two chairs' but never 'two furnitures'.
2. Use 'a piece of furniture' when you want to count it.

Answer: (a) Groom

Explanation:
1. The male partner of a bride at a wedding is the groom (bridegroom).
2. A bridesmaid is a female attendant, a lad is a boy and a drake is a male duck.
3. So the answer is Groom.

Teacher's Note:
1. Learn gender pairs together: bride-groom, lord-lady, duke-duchess.
2. Use the context of the word: here it is a wedding.

Answer: (d) Masculine

Explanation:
1. A duke is a nobleman, always male; the female is a duchess.
2. So the gender is masculine.

Teacher's Note:
1. Common gender words such as teacher or leader can be either male or female, but duke cannot.
2. Neuter gender is for things without life.

Answer: (a) Dart are

Explanation:
1. The name of the game is Darts, and the names of games and subjects that end in 's' take a singular verb (like billiards).
2. So the part 'Dart are' is wrong; it should be 'Darts is'.
3. The answer is (A).

Teacher's Note:
1. Compare: 'Billiards is a game', 'Darts is a game'.
2. The rest of the sentence is correct.

Answer: (c) the sceneries to be breath taking

Explanation:
1. Scenery is an uncountable noun. It has no plural, so 'sceneries' is wrong.
2. The correct phrase is 'the scenery to be breathtaking'.
3. The error is in (C).

Teacher's Note:
1. Other nouns that never take a plural: furniture, luggage, information, advice.
2. Parts A and B contain no mistake.

Answer: (a) The present datas

Explanation:
1. 'Data' is already the plural of 'datum', so 'datas' is wrong.
2. The correct phrase is 'The present data'.
3. The error is in (A).

Teacher's Note:
1. Nouns ending in -um often change to -a in the plural: datum, data; medium, media.
2. Never add -s to a plural that already ends in -a in this way.

Answer: (b) Peter

Explanation:
1. A proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing and begins with a capital letter.
2. Peter is a particular person's name.
3. Singer and sister are common nouns and milk is a material noun. The answer is Peter.

Teacher's Note:
1. Capital letters are the clue to a proper noun.
2. Names of days, months, cities and rivers are also proper nouns.

Answer: (a) birds

Explanation:
1. A common noun is a name common to every person or thing of the same kind.
2. Birds names a whole class of animals. London and India are proper nouns, and iron is a material noun.
3. The answer is birds.

Teacher's Note:
1. Ask whether the name belongs to a whole group or just one particular thing.
2. Material nouns such as iron and gold form a separate kind.

Answer: (a) team

Explanation:
1. A collective noun names a group taken as one whole.
2. A team is a group of players, so it is a collective noun.
3. Book is a common noun, and marbles and ships are plural common nouns. The answer is team.

Teacher's Note:
1. A plural noun such as 'ships' is not a collective noun just because there are many; 'fleet' would be.
2. Class, family, committee and team are typical collective nouns.

Answer: (d) nun.

Explanation:
1. A monk is a man who has joined a religious order.
2. The woman who joins such an order is a nun.
3. A friar is also male, so the answer is nun.

Teacher's Note:
1. Learn it as a pair: monk and nun.
2. 'Lady' is the feminine of 'lord', not of monk.

Answer: (a) lady.

Explanation:
1. The female counterpart of a lord is a lady.
2. Lordess and lordy are not words, and sister is a relationship.
3. The answer is lady.

Teacher's Note:
1. Lord and lady are a matched pair, as are king and queen.
2. Do not make a feminine by simply adding -ess to every word.

Answer: (b) mare.

Explanation:
1. The usual feminine of horse is mare, a grown female horse.
2. A colt is a young male horse, a filly is a young female horse (the pair of colt) and a stag is a male deer.
3. For the pair horse-and-feminine, the answer is mare.

Teacher's Note:
1. Horse and mare are the standard gender pair.
2. A filly is a young female horse, so the pair 'colt and filly' is about age as well as gender.

Answer: (b) a slice of bread

Explanation:
1. Bread is an uncountable noun, so we cannot use 'a', 'one' or a plural with it.
2. To count it we use a unit such as 'a slice of bread'.
3. The answer is a slice of bread.

Teacher's Note:
1. Similar units: a piece of advice, a loaf of bread, a glass of water.
2. 'One bread' and 'a bread' are wrong because bread cannot be counted directly.

Answer: (a) else's

Explanation:
1. When 'else' follows somebody, anybody or nobody, the apostrophe and 's' are added to 'else'.
2. So the correct form is someone else's.

Teacher's Note:
1. Possessive form: somebody else's, nobody else's.
2. 'Elses' is never correct.