What you will learn in Grade 5
Today's goal: Choose nouns that make writing specific and recognise how noun types work in context.
Abstract: courage, freedom, honesty
An abstract noun names an idea, feeling, quality or state that is not a physical object.
Collective: committee, audience, herd
A collective noun names a group considered as one unit.
Compound: toothpaste, football, classroom
A compound noun is formed from two or more words that work together as one noun.
Countable: three notebooks
A countable noun can be counted and can have singular and plural forms.
Core idea
Read the explanation, study the examples and explain the idea in your own words.
Learn with examples
courage
“courage” names an idea or quality that we cannot touch.
audience
“audience” names a group as one unit, which makes it a collective noun.
classroom
“classroom” is formed by joining words to make one noun.
information
“information” can be counted as separate items, so it is countable.
See the skill in action
Quick check
Which noun is uncountable: information or notebooks?
Practice like a learner
- Classify five nouns by type.
- Write a sentence with an abstract noun.
- Write a sentence with a collective noun.
- Identify the compound noun in a sentence.
- Explain why 'information' is not normally counted as 'informations'.
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