Lesson 20 - Parts of Speech - Nouns

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Three other specific classifications for nouns are collective nouns, count nouns, and mass nouns.

Collective nouns name groups, such as team, class, and choir.

Count nouns can be counted. You can use a, an, many, or a number before count nouns. Examples include: one boy, six sheep, and many days.

Mass nouns are not countable and include words like gasoline, water, and dirt.

Instructions: Find the nouns in these sentences and classify them as collective nouns, count nouns, or mass nouns.

1. Get some gasoline, or the class will be late arriving.

2. The alien group should come by bus soon.

3. The orchestra will be playing in the arena in the evening.

4. The water at the beach was covered with oil.

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Answers:

1. Get some gasoline, or the class will be late arriving.
      gasoline - mass noun
      class - collective noun

2. The alien group should come by bus soon.

      group - collective noun
      bus - count noun

3. The orchestra will be playing in the arena in the evening.
      orchestra - collective noun
      arena and evening - count nouns

4. The water at the beach was covered with oil.
      water and oil - mass nouns
      beach - count noun

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