CBSE Class 2 English Nouns Worksheet

NOUNS

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This lesson will help you to:—
• understand noun as a part of speech and its grammatical usage.
• analyse different kinds of nouns and distinguishing factors between them.
• develop the idea of using the nouns in proper context.

DEFINITION
A Noun is the name of a person, place, or thing; such as Sachin, Delhi, cow, table, happiness, beauty, crowd, iron etc.

Kinds of Noun
There are four different kinds of noun.

(a) Proper Noun: It is the name of a particular person or place and is always written with a capital letter.
Eg., Akbar was a wise king. Mumbai is a big city. Rahul is a clever boy.

(b) Common Noun: It is a name which is common to any and every person or thing of the same kind. Eg.,
The king is riding on his horse. That boy is going to school. This is a busy city.

(c) Collective Noun: It denotes a number of persons or things grouped together as one complete whole. Eg,
A flock of sheep is grazing in the field. The crowd was very big. A bunch of flowers is kept on the table.

(d) Abstract Noun: It is the name of some quality, state or action. Abstract nouns are the things which we cannot perceive through senses.
Eg, wisdom, poverty, youth, childhood, kindness etc.

(e) Gender Nouns: Nouns can be classified into four types of gender nouns. They are-
• Masculine
• Feminine
• Common Gender
• Neuter Gender
Masculine Gender: Nouns that talk or indicate a male then it is called as masculine noun.
Eg., man, hero, boy, kindness etc.
Feminine Gender: Nouns that talk or indicate a female then it is called as feminine noun.
Eg., women, girl, queen, actress etc. Common
Gender: It refers to nouns that can either be male or female.
Eg., teacher, child, student, friend etc.
Neuter Gender: This type of noun is neither male nor female. These are usually non-living things.
Eg., computer, book, pen, school etc.

(f) Singular and Plural Nouns: The nouns are called singular nouns when they count one in number while the nouns are plural when they count more than one in number.
Eg., park-parks, tablet-tablets, desk-desks etc.
To change a singular noun to plural, we usually add ‘s/es’ at the end of the nouns.

WORDS SHOWING COLLECTION
(We have mentioned few frequently used collective nouns
here. There are many more words to show collection).

FORMATION OF ABSTRACT NOUNS

ONE WORD SUBSTITUTION
There are words which can replace a group of words. Such nouns enhance the vocabulary and are helpful in explaining thoughts. There are many more words. A few words have been mentioned here for your better understanding.

REMEMBER

→ For the plural form of most nouns, add ‘s’.
Eg., • Pencil - pencils
• Sticker - stickers
• Door - doors

→ For nouns that end in ch, x, s or s sounds add ‘es’.
Eg., • Watch - watches
• Moss - mosses
• Bus - buses

→ For nouns ending in f or fe, change f to v and add ‘es’.
Eg., • Leaf - leaves
• Live - lives
• Knife - knives

→ Some nouns have different plural forms.
Eg., • Child - children
• Mouse - mice
• Goose - Geese

→ Some nouns have the same singular and plural forms.
Eg., • Fish - fish
• Sheep - sheep
• Series - series

→ For nouns ending in a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) + y then add ‘s’.
Eg., • Boy - boys
• Key - keys

→ If the word ends in a consonant +y then ‘y’ changes to ‘ies’.
Eg., • Country - countries
• Sky - skies

Activity
• Create a collage of nouns. Get a large piece of poster board and using a marker, make one heading for common nouns , proper noun and collective noun. Then, browse old magazines and newspapers for examples of common nouns, proper nouns and collective nouns. Cut them out and paste or tape them underneath the proper heading. This collage will help you visualize the use of the three nouns.

Important Tip
• An abstract noun relates to something which cannot actually be perceived by the senses. It denotes quality like cleverness, kindness, state like poverty, youth, action like laughter, movement etc. Abstract nouns should not be confused with verbs because verbs are action or doing words which can be seen when they are done like writing, running, eating etc.

Choose the correct option from those given below.

Question. India Gate is situated in New Delhi.
(a) Abstract noun
(b) Common noun
(c) Proper noun
(d) None
Answer : C

Question. A tiger is chasing a deer.
(a) Proper noun
(b) Common noun
(c) Collective noun
(d) None
Answer : B

Question. Students gave a bouquet to their teacher.
(a) Collective noun
(b) Proper noun
(c) Common noun
(d) None
Answer : A

Question. A dictionary tells me the meaning of a word
(a) Plural noun
(b) Collective noun
(c) Proper noun
(d) Singular noun
Answer : D

Question. New York is a big city.
(a) Proper noun
(b) Common noun
(c) Material noun
(d) None
Answer : B

Question. A fleet of fifty ships left the harbour.
(a) Collective noun
(b) Proper noun
(c) Common noun
(d) None
Answer : D

Question. Our class consists of twenty boys and ten girls.
(a) Collective noun
(b) Material noun
(c) Abstract noun
(d) Common noun
Answer : A

Question. Her teacher got scared of the rat.
(a) Masculine gender
(b) Abstract noun
(c) Proper noun
(d) Common gender
Answer : D

Question. Jewellery is made of gold, silver and diamond.
(a) Abstract noun
(b) Collective noun
(c) Proper noun
(d) Common noun
Answer : D

Question. A huge crowd gathered at the exhibition.
(a) Proper noun
(b) Collective noun
(c) Common noun
(d) Abstract noun
Answer : B

Question. She plays the piano well.
(a) Masculine gender
(b) Feminine gender
(c) Common gender
(d) Neuter gender
Answer : D

Question. London is the capital of England.
(a) Abstract noun
(b) Proper noun
(c) Common noun
(d) Material noun
Answer : B

Question. Engines are made of iron.
(a) Collective noun
(b) Common noun
(c) Abstract noun
(d) Proper noun
Answer : B

Question. Priya is reciting a poem.
(a) Proper noun
(b) Collective noun
(c) Abstract noun
(d) Common noun
Answer : A

Question. Work is worship.
(a) Common noun
(b) Proper noun
(c) Abstract noun
(d) Collective noun
Answer : C

Find the correct analogy.

Question. Doctor is to patient as teacher is to _____ .
(a) customer
(b) garden
(c) pupil
(d) school
Answer : C

Question. Horse is to stable as fish is to _____ .
(a) sty
(b) aquarium
(c) kennel
(d) nature
Answer : B

Question. Petals are to flower as pages are to _____ .
(a) book
(b) stem
(c) pupil
(d) colour
Answer : A

Question. Bird is to aviary as bee is to ____ .
(a) honey
(b) garden
(c) flower
(d) apiary
Answer : D

Question. Blood is to body as ink is to _____ .
(a) pen
(b) learning
(c) colour
(d) school
Answer : A

Find the odd one out.

Question.
(a) Dora
(b) cow
(c) Jerry
(d) Donald
Answer : B

Question.
(a) Taj Mahal
(b) mosque
(c) temple
(d) church
Answer : A

Question.
(a) gold
(b) silver
(c) iron
(d) platinum
Answer : C

Question.
(a) wisdom
(b) poverty
(c) youth
(d) king
Answer : D

Question.
(a) lion
(b) crowd
(c) army
(d) mob
Answer : A

Fill in the blanks by choosing the correct answer.

Question. The ________ is very tiny.
(a) mouse
(b) geese
(c) mice
(d) both (a) and (b)
Answer : A

Question. We should always speak the ________.
(a) lie
(b) truth
(c) lies
(d) true
Answer : B

Question. He gave me a red ________.
(a) orange
(b) apple
(c) lychee
(d) both (b) and (c)
Answer : B

Question. ________ is a good habit.
(a) Dirtiness
(b) Tidy
(c) Neat
(d) Cleanliness
Answer : D

Question. The boy was rewarded for his ________.
(a) brave
(b) bravery
(c) fear
(d) fears
Answer : B

NOUNS