December 18, 2007
Grammar Lesson 20

Three other specific classifications for nouns are collective nouns, count nouns and mass nouns. Collective nouns name groups as team, class and choir. Count nouns can be counted as one boy, six sheep and many days. You can use a, an, many or a number before it. Mass nouns are not countable as gasoline, water or dirt.

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.


Answers

1. gasoline - mass; class - collective

2. group - collective; bus - count

3. orchestra - collective; arena and evening - count

4. water and oil - mass; beach - count



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