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Nouns: discussions and interactive exercises

Nouns are names of persons, places, things, ideas or abstract concepts. For a better understanding of what nouns are, please surf to the websites listed below. Clicking the blue links will take you to the specific pages where the definitions, classifications or interactive exercises are located, while clicking the website name will take you to the home page.

[1] Nouns, from Capital Community College Guide to Good Grammar
[2] Nouns, from Grammar Monster (British English)
[3] Grammar reference: Nouns and phrases, from One Stop English
[4] Nouns, from English Daily
[5] Nouns, from Interlink Language Centers
[6] Nouns, from Using English
[7] Lesson 1 - Nouns, from My English Grammar
[8] Index to articles on Nouns, from Learning English Online www.englisch-hilfen.de (English version)

Listed below are links to interactive quizzes, exercises and activities in nouns from the best ESL and EFL resources on the Internet. Since gerunds and infinitives are used as nouns, we have inlcuded them here. Clicking the blue links will take you to the specific pages where the quizzes or exercises are, while clicking the website name will take you to the home page. Take time to browse these excellent websites; they are consistently good and fast loading. Besides the activities and exercises listed below, these sites generously offer, free of charge, a tremendous range of valuable resources for ESL and EFL teachers and students.

In answering the interactive exercises, you should follow carefully the prompts and directions. You should read each sentence or part aloud before clicking the answer you think is right. After the correct answer is displayed, think it over as to why it is the correct answer. (Please take note that the correct answer may depend on whether the exercise comes from an American English or a British English website.) After doing so, read the complete sentence again aloud with the correct answer.

To train yourself to think in English, try to recite the sentences with the correct answers from memory and at your full speaking volume. Or you can ask a friend to read out loud the sentences with the correct answers and you repeat them without looking at the computer screen.

Assorted Count and Noncount Noun (Kaye Mastin Mallory)
Countable or Non-Countable Nouns (Charles Kelly)
Plural Forms and Irregular Nouns (Barbara Lyons Perez)
Singular, Plural or Possessive (Charles Kelly)

Countable and Uncountable - Noun Quantifiers

Noun + noun
Noun + noun 2 (Noun + noun / possessive 's)
Of + determiner
One
Possessives / Plurals
Singular or plural?
Countable nouns + Some / A / An

Recognizing Nouns
An Exercise in Noun Definition
Recognizing Count and Non-Count Nouns
Noun: A Crossword Puzzle

Count / Noncount Nouns

Gerunds Quiz

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What do we call ...? - Exercise 1 Noun modifiers (noun adjuncts) that indicate what something is made of.
What do we call ...? - Exercise 2 Noun modifiers (noun adjuncts) that describe devices.
What do we call ...? - Exercise 3 Noun modifiers (noun adjuncts) that describe food.

Gerunds
Gerund After Preposition 1 Fifteen sentences with gerund after preposition (includes to as preposition and as infinitive marker).
Gerund After Preposition 2 Fifteen more sentences with gerund after preposition (includes to as preposition and as infinitive marker).
Gerund vs. Infinitive Quiz 1 The use of the gerund or infinitive after certain verbs
Gerund vs. Infinitive Quiz 2 A second group of verbs taking the gerund or infinitive

Note: frame based, you can reach the specific topics listed below by clickng "Unit 1: Word and Phrase Patterns" or "Unit 2: Clause Patterns" on the left hand frame.

Unit 1: Word and Phrase Patterns
Lesson 1-15: Noun Identification
Lesson 1-17: Subject Identification
Lesson 1-18: Subject Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-19: Subject Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-20: Subject Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-21: Subject Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-22: Subject Identification (Continued)
Lesson 1-23: Subject Identification (Continued)

Unit 2: Clause Patterns
Lesson 2-0: Unit 2 Pretest
Lesson 2-31: The Noun Clause
Lesson 2-32: The Noun Clause (Continued)
Lesson 2-33: The Noun Clause (Continued)
Lesson 2-34: Noun Clauses versus Adjective and Adverbial Clauses
Lesson 2-35: Noun Clauses versus Adjective and Adverbial Clauses (Continued)

[09] Exercises in nouns from English Language Centre Study Zone

Regular Plurals of Nouns (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Irregular Plurals of Nouns (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Count and Non-Count Nouns (Introduction & 2 exercises)
How to Count Non-Count Nouns (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Count and Non-Count Nouns (Review) (Introduction & 3 exercises)
Gerunds (Introduction & 2 exercises)
Gerunds and Infinitives (Introduction & 6 exercises)

Abstract Nouns Quiz

Cloze Exercise #1: Nouns and Adjectives
Nouns and Pronouns Exercises
Identifying Subjects 1
Identifying Subjects 2
Identifying Subjects 3
Count and Non-Count Nouns: Much/Many
Count and Non-Count Nouns: Arriving at Gallaudet

Note: Frame based, only one URL for all exercises

Singular to Plural
Irregular Plural Nouns

Nouns Pop Quiz 2

Noun or Pronoun?
Noun or Verbs?
Number (singular or plural nouns?)
More Plural Nouns
Irregular Plural Nouns
More Plural Nouns (“f = > ves”)
Really Irregular Plural Nouns
Borrowed Irregular Plural Nouns
No Singular Irregular Nouns

Flashed ESL
Gender
Plural Nouns
Noun – Verb Agreement
Plural Nouns II

Nouns Test
Singular? Test
Plurals Test

Count - Uncount Nouns

Spelling Quiz / Nouns: Singular and Plural

Irregular Plurals: Intermediate
Shopping in the Haight Part One: Gerunds & Infinitives
Shopping in the Haight Part Two: Gerunds & Infinitives

Collective Nouns
Abstract Nouns
Noun and Verb Matching / Subjects and Verbs - 1
Noun and Verb Matching / Subjects and Verbs - 2

Nouns 1
Nouns 2
Count / Noncount Nouns and Articles
Gerund, Infinitive, or Both?

ESL Practice: COUNT or NON-COUNT (Intermediate)
ESL Practice: COUNT or NON-COUNT 2 (Intermediate)
ESL Practice: COUNT or NON-COUNT 3 (Beginner)
ESL Practice: COUNT or NON-COUNT 4 (Beginner)
ESL Practice: COUNT or NON-COUNT 5 (Intermediate)
Plurals of nouns - part 1 (Beginner)
Plurals of nouns - part 2 (Beginner)

GERUND or INFINITIVE? (Beginner)
GERUND or INFINITIVE? 2 (Intermediate)
GERUND or INFINITIVE? 3 (Intermediate)
GERUND or INFINITIVE? 4 (Advanced)

Countable and uncountable nouns (Insurance)

Count / Uncount Noun self-study quizzes
Quiz # 1
Quiz # 2
Quiz # 3
Quiz # 4
Noun clauses / infinitives: Quiz 1
Noun clauses connectors "what and that:" Quiz 2
Noun clauses - using "ever" connectors: Quiz 3
Noun clauses "the subjunctive:" Quiz 4
Noun clauses "Reported Speech:" Quiz 5
Singular / Plural Noun self-study quizzes

Go + noun

Exercise 1 - Nouns
Exercise 10 - Possession (Possessive Nouns)

Noun Clause as Subject Upper Intermediate Flash Q & A
Noun or Noun Phrase in Apposition Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Noun-Pronoun (and Quantifier) Agreement Intermediate - Advanced
Plural Nouns in Certain Expressions Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Adjectives and Nouns Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Compound Adjectives (and Adjectives as Nouns) Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A
Confusing Adjectives and Nouns Intermediate - Advanced Flash Q & A

Appositives
Count and NonCount Nouns Exercises
Quantity Terms with Count and Noncount Nouns

Count and Non-count Nouns (1)
Count and Non-count Nouns (2)
Count and Non-count Nouns (3)

Infinitives & Gerunds (1)
Infinitives & Gerunds (2)
Infinitives & Gerunds (3)
Infinitives & Gerunds (4)
Infinitives & Gerunds (5)

Quantities / Count - non count nouns
What do You Want to Eat?
Do you need some eggs?
How much do we need?
No Place like Home

Noun Identification
Count, Mass, Collective Nouns
Plural & Possessive Nouns

Noun Practice Exercise
Noun Practice Exercise Answers
Interactive Noun Quiz #1
Interactive Noun Quiz #2

NOUNS FROM VERBS
GERUND OR INFINITIVE?

Notes:

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