Question

Complete the table below by sorting the following nouns into their correct categories

Answer 1

Answer:

COUNTABLE:

1. Common Nouns: Fish, vegetable, candle.

2. Proper Nouns: Roald Dahl, Jupiter, Repton School.

3. Collective Nouns: gang, choir, forest.

4. Abstract Nouns:

UNCOUNTABLE:

1. Common Nouns: milk, cutlery, furniture.

2. Proper Nouns:

3. Collective Nouns:

4. Abstract Nouns: calmness, honesty, friendship.

Explanation:

A noun is the name of a person, animal, place, or thing that helps the readers or audience understand or identify. This means that nouns are the names given or used to refer to a place, animal, thing, or person.

Nouns are again differentiated to their types- collective, proper, common, abstract which are also again determined according to their countable or uncountable aspects.

Countable nouns are those that one can count their numbers while uncountable nouns are not.

Proper nouns are nouns that talk about a particular, specific thing.

Common nouns are used for nouns that are common in nature.

Collective nouns are those nouns that are collective in nature. It is when the nouns are taken as a group.

And abstract nouns are those nouns that cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. This means that those nouns that express feelings, emotions, etc. are known as abstract nouns.

The given nouns and their respective categories are as below-

COUNTABLE:

1. Common Nouns: Fish, vegetable, candle.

2. Proper Nouns: Roald Dahl, Jupiter, Repton School.

3. Collective Nouns: gang, choir, forest.

4. Abstract Nouns:

UNCOUNTABLE:

1. Common Nouns: milk, cutlery, furniture.

2. Proper Nouns:

3. Collective Nouns:

4. Abstract Nouns: calmness, honesty, friendship.