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1. Match up each type of noun with its definition.
Type of Noun
Definition
Common Nouns
Words for ideas and concepts
General words for things, animals and people
Collective Nouns
Names of particular people, places or things
Proper Nouns
Words for groups of animals or people
2.
Explain how you can always spot a proper noun, even if you don't know what it means.
3.
Match each collective noun to the correct animal.
pride
bees
school
flock
4.
dolphins
SWATM
lions
sheep
Circte all the proper nouns in the sentences below.
a-
Elizabeth loves to roller-skate beside the Thames in a tutu.
b.
The old sailor told Rufus stories about his travels across the Pacific Ocean.
c.
The twins were very excited about their trip to France on Sunday.
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d. Mr Mason always went to the supermarket
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Circle the abstract nouns in the box below'
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painting
haPPiness
quickly
toad
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love
cave
frost
wizard
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anger
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as either common, proper or collective
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a proper and an abstract noun'
a. Write your own sentence which contains a common,
below.
b. Write your nouns in the correct space in the table
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Preposltions
prepositions tell you where or when something happened. The exercises on this page sltould
help you get to gnps with them. Have a go and see for yourse//1,..
1.
Circle the prepositions below.
orange
under
2.
real
into
lay
flying
after
over
Choose a suitable preposition to-"otplete each sentence'
between
from
at
under
around
out
to
The burglar made his escape by jumping
The climber wrapped her
The clown
stood
of
over
in
the world.
My cousin is a pilot and travels all .......
3.
cloud
on toP of
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scarf
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the window'
. her head'
....... the bridge'
Underline the preposition in each sentence and write down whether it shows
time or place.
a.
The alarm went off during the assembly'
b.
Beverly lives opposite the sweet shop.
c.
Marcus was exhausted after the match.
d.
My dad snored throughout the film.
e.
They tied ribbons around the gifts.
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Prepositions
4.
preposition'
the word in bord is an adverb or a
For each sentence berow, write whether
adverb
The waiter told him to stand uP'
We left the mouldy cheese in the car'
The champion runner finished miles ahead'
The purple monkey is next to the dishwastrer'
They were really full after the buffet'
The rain came Pouring down'
each of the blank spaces below'
write a preposition that makes sense in
to go a hundred miles
To find the ancient treasure you need
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the desert. Go
east
pyramid'
the sand dunes until you come to a
statue of a sphinx' The treasure is buried
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the pyramid is a
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be|ow, including your own preposition.
Write a sentence using each set of words
your preposition on the dotted line'
when you have finished each sentence, write
jumPed
shocked
fridge
disgusting
Wrerc do you stand on prcpositions' Gnmmagator?
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