TYPES OF NOUNS GRADE 1

As Grade 1 learners improve their reading and writing skills, it is essential to introduce them to parts of speech. Teachers teach types of nouns for grade 1 as an indispensable part of sentence construction. In teaching the notion of nouns, teachers are to teach based on terms relatable to students. Pupils can learn better with teaching slides, worksheets, and other visual aids.

Moving forward, let’s start our next lesson on types of nouns grade 1.

Nouns are words that name people, animals, places or things.

People: These nouns give identity to a person. They are also all living things – Mary, boy, lady, Peter.
Animals: Nouns that are living things and give identity to animals – goat, cow, dog, and cat.
Places: Nouns that name location – Paris, office, London, home.
Things: table, bottle, picture, and key are nouns, and non-living things felt with your hands.
Ideas: courage, joy, danger, and gratitude cannot be touched, also called abstract nouns.

How to Identify Nouns

To “identify” means to spot or to pick out.

In spotting nouns in a sentence, look at each word and know whether it is a person, animal, place, thing or idea.

Sentence: Fred bought the ball in the store for his dog.

Fred is the name of a person.

ball is a thing.

store is a place.

dog is an animal.

Because they are names, they become nouns.

So, there are FOUR nouns in the sentence.

Proper Nouns

A proper noun is a name of a specific object.

I live in London. (Proper noun)

Proper nouns always begin with capital letters.

Common Nouns

Common nouns start with small letters, while proper nouns begin with capital letters.

The name of my country is Nigeria.

In this sentence, country is a common noun while Nigeria is a proper noun.

Difference Between Proper Nouns and Common Nouns

Proper nouns could also appear as more than one word, like Coca-Cola. Here, we capitalize both words in the proper noun.

Her favourite drink is Coca-Cola.

Coca-Cola is a proper noun because it specifies a drink.

Coca-Cola is capitalized because there is only one Coca Cola,

The word drink is a common noun because there are many drinks.

We only capitalize common nouns when they begin sentences.

Gender (Common nouns)

man, woman
boy, girl
female, male
grandmother, grandfather
mother, father

How to Identify Proper Nouns

If proper nouns are multiple words, we capitalize all of them.

First and last names – James Smith.
Names of countries and cities – Lagos, Italy.
Days of the week, like Monday.
Months of the year – March.
Holidays – Christmas.
All proper nouns are capitalized.
We capitalize “I” even though it’s not a proper noun.

Singular Nouns

The word “Singular” refers to a single thing. Singular nouns define one person, animal, place, thing, or idea.

One table.

Plural Nouns

Plural nouns depict more than one person, animal, place, thing, or idea.

The root word is “table”, with the suffix “-s”.

Table – Tables.

Irregular Plural Nouns

Irregular means not normal or not regular. So, it does not follow the rules.

Regular forms include adding -s or -es to make nouns plural.

However, not all nouns follow this process, which makes them irregular. They have irregular plural forms and change into different words.

One foot. Two feet.
One mouse. Three mice.
One goose. Five geese.
One child. Two children.
One woman. Two women.

Words Having the Same Singular and Plural Forms

Some unique words do not change when they become plural.

One fish. Three fish.
One deer. Two deer.
One sheep. Ten sheep.

Possessive Nouns

Possessive nouns display ownership. To possess means to own.

The girl’s kitten loves boiled fish.

The word “girl’s” is a possessive noun.

We add an apostrophe and s to the noun to make it possessive.

Peter’s car.

The ‘s’ informs us that Peter is the owner of the car. Peter is the owner.

The girl’s room.

It also means the room of the girl.

Apostrophes in Possessive Nouns

We add apostrophes and an s at the end of most nouns to make them possessive. Plural nouns end with an s and an apostrophe at the end to make them possessive.

Plural – The boys’ balls.
Singular – Peter’s car.
Singular – Peter’s car is rusty.

To sum it all up, this is all grade 1 pupils should know about nouns so far. However, our Grade 1 noun worksheets offer colourful visual worksheets for students. The practice materials help improve the child’s grammar performance as they include practice with different types of nouns.