Nouns for Class 4 lays a strong foundation for further language development. Mastering nouns early is crucial for language construction, especially for Class 4 students who delve deeper into sentence formation and comprehension.
Proficiency in Nouns for Class 4 enhances sentence construction, writing skills, and communication abilities by facilitating clearer expression and comprehension in both oral and written forms for the students of Class 4.
Nouns for Class 4 with Types
“Noun is a naming word”. A noun is used to denote the name of something by a word whatever we see, touch, or feel.
Examples:
(a) Amartya is a good boy.
(b) The dog is a faithful animal.
(c) The army reached there in time.
(d) Iron is a very useful metal.
(e) Kindness is a great virtue.
In the above sentences, Amartya (name of a person), animal (name of a group of animals), army (name of a group of people), Iron (name of a thing or substance), and kindness (name of a group) stand for Noun.
Nouns can be divided into five parts on the basis of sight, touch, and feeling.
1. Proper Noun
The name of a particular person, place, river, day, or thing is called a Proper Noun.
Examples:
(a) Anu is a good student.
(b) Kolkata is a big city.
(c) The Koran is a holy book.
(d) He reads The Telegraph daily.
★ Since Proper Noun denotes the name of a specific object, place, person, famous palace, newspaper, etc., the first letter of these proper names will always be a capital letter.
All Lessons Class 4:
| Lesson 1: Noun | Lesson 11: The Present Continuous Tense |
| Lesson 2: Countable and Uncountable Nouns | Lesson 12: The Prast Tense |
| Lesson 3: Gender | Lesson 13: The Future Tense |
| Lesson 4: Pronouns | Lesson 14: Adverbs |
| Lesson 5: Articles | Lesson 15: Prepositions |
| Lesson 6: Adjectives | Lesson 16: Conjunctions |
| Lesson 7: Possessive Adjectives | Lesson 17: Subject Verb Agreement |
| Lesson 8: Order of Adjectives | Lesson 18: Subject and Predicate |
| Lesson 9: Degrees of Adjectives | Lesson 19: Do as Directed |
| Lesson 10: The Present Tense | Lesson 20: Punctuation Marks |
2. Common Noun
The word by which we understand the common name of a class or nation is called a Common Noun. There is always an article in front of a common noun.
★ Common Noun, like Proper Noun, does not name any particular person, thing, animal, or place, rather it refers to all the people, things, animals, or places in general.
Examples:
(a) A river is flowing.
(b) A cow is running.
(c) A pen is on the table.
(d) A train is coming.
(e) A bird is flying.
Look at the underlined words in the above sentences:
| Common Noun | Proper Noun |
| A river ( any river) | The Ganga (particular name of river) |
| A cow ( any cow) | Dhabali (particular name of cow) |
| A ship ( any ship) | The Titanic (particular name of ship) |
| A month ( any month) | July (particular name of month) |
| A pen ( any pen) | The Parker pen (particular name of pen) |
| A train ( any train) | The Rajdhani Express (particular name of the train) |
| A bird ( any bird) | Moynah (particular name of bird) |
3. Material Noun
An object is made of a special material, and the names of that element or substance are Material Noun
Example: ‘Chair’ is a Common Noun but ‘wood’ is a Material Noun. ‘ring’ is a Common Noun but ‘gold’ is a Material Noun
Examples:
(a) Iron is a useful metal.
(b) A diamond is a bright thing.
(c) Water is life.
★ Material Nouns cannot be counted.
★ It depends on quantity.
★ It is always counted as singular.
★ There was no article before this.
But an Article is used to explain a specific meaning. For example, The gold of this ring is pure.
4. Collective Noun
All those nouns that denote a collection of a number of people, objects, or things are called Collective Nouns.
Examples:
Army, Bunch, Pack, and Fleet are Collective Nouns.
Army = A collection of soldiers,
Bunch = A collection of keys or grapes
Pack = A collection of dogs.
Collective Nouns List:
An army of soldiers
A bale of cotton/silk
A batch of students
A bench of judges
A bevy of ladies/women / models
A bundle of sticks/papers/hay –
A bunch of grapes/keys/flowers
A band of pilgrims
A clump of bamboos
A chain of mountains
A crew of sailors
A constellation/galaxy of stars
A host of people/passengers
A colony of rats/seals/ants
A covey of quails
A flock of birds
A flock of sheep/ducks/ pigeons
A flight of birds/stairs/steps
A fleet of ships
A gang of robbers/pickpockets/coolies/thieves/bandits
A gaggle of geese
A group of politicians
A heap of books/sand
A herd of cows/deer/horses/elephants/pigs
A pile of papers/books/rubbish
A pack of hounds/wolves
A packet of cigarettes
A pride of lions
A pair of shoes
A row of trees
A swarm of bees
A stack of wood/hay
A shoal of fish
A suit of clothes
A school of whales/herrings/mackerels/dolphins
A set of tools
A squad of home guards
A sheaf of paddy/wheat/papers/arrows
A pack of foxes
A staff of servants
A stud of racing horses
A troupe of singers/dancers
A troop of monkeys/soldiers
A team of inspectors
5. Abstract Noun
Abstract Nouns are the names of qualities that cannot be seen or touched, and can only be imagined or felt.
(a) (Quality) (-ness )
Kindness
happiness
darkness
laziness
(b) (State)
boyhood
friendship
freedom
childhood
(c) (Action)
movement
coming
Rise
happiness
darkness
advice
increase
fall
-ity:
reality
purity
morality
poverty
equality
ability
-dom:
freedom
kingdom
wisdom
-th:
growth
truth
Death
health
depth
strength
-ship:
friendship
leadership
hardship
Formation of Abstract Nouns From Verbs
| Verbs | Nouns | Verbs | Nouns |
| move | movement | die | death |
| protect | protection | think | thought |
| act | action | see | sight |
| obey | obedience | hate | hatred |
| know | knowledge | advise | advice |
| depart | departure | please | pleasure |
| serve | service | judge | judgement |
| punish | punishment | err | error |
| solve | solution | bear | birth |
| live | life | marry | marriage |
Formation Of Abstract Nouns From Adjectives
| Adjectives | Nouns | Adjectives | Nouns |
| long | length | true | truth |
| strong | strength | choice | |
| cold | coldness | young | youth |
| good | goodness | high | height |
| bright | brightness | wide | width |
| dark | darkness | hard | hardness |
| free | freedom | decent | decency |
| wise | wisdom | honest | honesty |
| false | falsehood | bitter | bitterness |
| feeble | feebleness | poor | poverty |
| holy | holiness | vacant | vacancy |
| cruel | cruelty | brave | bravery |
Note: In modern English grammar, nouns are again divided into two main categories: countable and uncountable.
The nouns which can be counted are called Countable Nouns and the nouns which cannot be counted are called Uncountable Nouns.
Nouns for Class 4 Exercises 1
1. Underline the nouns of the following sentences:
(a) Bhola is tall.
(b) Babu is short.
(c) Look at the moon.
(d) Sit down, children.
(e) The sword is sharp.
(f) Papa is standing against the wall.
(g) This is a big box.
(h) Your pen is in your bag.
(i) Where is your ball?
(j) My father is always busy.
(k) Kolk is a great city.
(1) Mother Teresa was a noble lady.
(m) Bela is my sister.
(n) Nantu has been given a bouquet of flowers.
Class 4 Nouns Exercises 2
2. Place the words of the word banks in the proper column:
| Word Bank | Proper noun | Common noun |
| Park Flower Deepti Surgeon Cassette Player Caveri July Magazine Day Hyderabad Week Tower Sunday Letter Monk Month Diwali Nainital Himalayas Rose August Festival School April Building |
Class 4 Nouns Exercises 3
3. Underline the nouns and classify them.
(a) Sourav was the captain of the team.
(b) The fleet of ship has returned.
(c) The cows are grazing in the field.
(d) Our Headmaster is a wise man.
(e) Doctors are the best social friends.
(f) Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal.
(g) Tapu went to hospital.
(h) He bought a bunch of grapes and a bouquet of flowers.
Class 4 Nouns Exercises 4
4. Underline the noun that does not belong to the group:
(a) Orchard, bird, crowd, flock, bundle.
(b) Courage, wisdom, laughter, toy, tear.
(c) River, Thames, Pluto, Bible, Egypt.
(d) Planet, mars, star, animal, bird.
Class 4 Nouns Exercises 5
5. Make abstract nouns by adding correctly one of these: -ment, -ness, -th,-ity.
Grow + ……………………. = ……………………….
Busy + ……………………. = ……………………….
Argue + ……………………. = ……………………….
Dark + ……………………. = ……………………….
Fair + ……………………. = ……………………….
Quick + ……………………. = ……………………….
Pure + ……………………. = ……………………….
Agree + ……………………. = ……………………….
Judge + ……………………. = ……………………….
Class 4 Nouns Exercises 6
6. Make abstract nouns by adding ‘-dom’ or ‘-hood’
Child + ……………………. = ……………………….
Free + ……………………. = ……………………….
False + ……………………. = ……………………….
Boy + ……………………. = ……………………….
Wise + ……………………. = ……………………….
Class 4 Nouns Exercises 7
7. Fill in each blank with Collective Noun
(a) A ………………….. of sailors.
(b) A ………………….. of sheep.
(c) A ………………….. of cattle.
(d) A/An …………………..of soldiers.
(e) A ………………….. of bandits.
(f) A ………………….. of musicians.
(8) A ………………….. of girls.
(h) A ………………….. of birds
Class 4 Nouns Exercises 8
8. Rearrange the words to make meaningful sentences.
1. Honesty/and/truthfulness/are/noble/virtues.
2. Kolkata/is/a/big/city.
3. mortal./Man/is
4. beast/The/wolf/is a/ferocious.
5. A/flock/of/is/flying/pigeons
6. metal./Iron/is /a/useful
7. meadow/A/the/herd/of/cows/is/grazing/in
8. cricketer/Gavaskar/is/a
9. eyes/The/cow/has/two.
10. tree/The/birds/are/in/the
11. mangoes/How/many there/in/the/basket
12. eas/The/sun/rises/in/the
13. dance/Shelley/likes/to
14. rain/We/use/umbrellas/in/the.
15. stars/There/are/many/in/the/sky.
