Nouns | MCQs

Explanation

The opposite gender of wizards is a witch.

A witch is the female

and a wizard is the male.

Explanation

The animate noun in the sentence "She keeps her kitten in the basket" is "kitten."

A kitten is a living creature, and "animate" refers to something alive.

The other options are either non-living (basket), pronouns (she), or prepositions (in).

Explanation

The rich should help the poor.

Article "THE" is used before a noun to indicate so that the identity of the noun is known to the reader.

Explanation

The words like history, sadness, childhood are examples of Abstract Noun.

The words like city, country, town, village are examples of Common Noun.

The words like book, pen, bag, cap are examples of Common Noun.

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Explanation

 Content means the subject or ideas

Contents means the parts contained in books

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Explanation

A concrete noun is a noun that can be physically experienced through taste, touch, sight, hearing, or smell.

Book, pen, page etc. are examples of Concrete Noun. 

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Explanation

A noun clause is a dependent clause that takes the place of any noun in the sentence, whether they are subjects, objects, or subject complements

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Explanation

•  Where were you, John? I need your help to complete my task. (the John word is a vocative noun)
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• in the sentence " Where were you, John?" John is a vocative expression that indicates the party being addressed
• These nouns are used to address someone in an affectionate or informal way. Boss, doc, gaffer, guv, guvnor, padre, prof, and skipper 
  

Explanation

• Clouds of black smoke belched from the house:  Smoke word is a mass noun
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•  A mass noun is any noun that represents something impossible or difficult to count
  
• Food, furniture, air, advice, blood, grass, research, trash, travel, knowledge, information, and meat. Note: the word “water” is not always a mass noun
  

Explanation

• Good friends are the beauty of life: (  friends word is a countable noun)
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• Nouns can be countable or uncountable.
• Countable nouns can be counted, e.g. an apple, two apples, three apples, etc
• Uncountable nouns cannot be counted, e.g. air, rice, water, etc.