3GA. Nouns Grammar Activities
Jonathon Reinhardt and Dilara Avci
These activities are designed for the content in 3. Nouns.
⇒ 3.1 Noun or verb?
⇒ 3.1.1 Match the suffix
⇒ 3.1.2 Gerund or participle?
⇒ 3.1.3 Compound nouns and bogus claims
⇒ 3.1.4 Corpus insights into nouns
⇒ 3.2.1 Identify the abstract nouns
⇒ 3.2.2 Proper nouns
⇒ 3.2.3 Singular & plural nouns
⇒ 3.2.4 Count & non-count nouns
⇒ 3.3 Noun phrases
⇒ 3.3.1 Noun phrase functions
⇒ 3.4 Comprehensive activities on nouns
⇒ Return to 3.1 What is a noun?
⇒ Return to 3.1.1 Noun Morphology
⇒ Return to 3.1.2 Gerunds
⇒ Return to 3.1.3 Compound nouns
⇒ Return to 3.2.1 Concrete & abstract nouns
Read the following:
Posts Falsely Claim to Show Hobbs in Arizona Election Tabulation Room by Komel Patel: https://www.factcheck.org/2022/11/posts-falsely-claim-to-show-hobbs-in-arizona-election-tabulation-room/
An image shared on social media shows a woman with glasses and brown hair in an arizona ballot tabulation room. The posts falsely identify the woman as democratic gubernatorial candidate katie hobbs, who is the secretary of state, implying that hobbs was illegally influencing the count. The woman pictured is an election observer, not hobbs.
⇒ Return to 3.2.2 Proper nouns
⇒ Return to 3.2.3 Singular, plural, & collective nouns
⇒ Return to 3.2.4 Count & non-count nouns
⇒ Return to 3.3 Noun phrases
Read the following passage from ‘Never Before Seen Look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unbuilt Capitol Oasis at: https://franklloydwright.org/oasis-state-capitol-quarterly/
It was April 1957. The entire city of Phoenix was embroiled in a battle over the future design of the State Capitol. At the center of the dispute was Wright himself, whose unsolicited proposal dominated conversation and media coverage and divided neighbors and family members for much of the year. For the architect, it was a gift to the people of his adopted home state, but following months of public contention, his visionary plans never made it off the drawing board.
⇒ Return to 3.3.1 Functions of noun phrases
a. Identify all the nouns in the following paragraph and determine their types, phrases, and function. Score each according to the chart below. Only award points for each noun once. How many points do you get?
Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security.
Speaking to reporters less than two weeks before he takes office on January 20 and as a delegation of aides and advisers that includes Donald Trump Jr. is in Greenland, Trump left open the use of the American military to secure both territories. Trump’s intention marks a rejection of decades of U.S. policy that has prioritized self-determination over territorial expansion.
- 1 point for every noun (common, count, not part of a compound)
- 2 points for every proper noun (not part of compound)
- 3 points for every non-count noun (not part of compound)
- 4 points for every compound noun
b. Come up with new euphemisms for 5 things that are not normally referred to with euphemisms, and ask another person to try to guess what they mean.
⇒ Return to 3. Nouns
Module authors: Jonathon Reinhardt and Dilara Avci
Last updated: 7 January 2025
This module is part of Modern English Grammar and the Power of Language, a open educational resource offered by the Clarify Initiative customized for English 406, a course at the University of Arizona. The Clarify Initiative is a privately funded project with the goal of raising critical language awareness and media literacy among students of language and throughout society.
