Types
of nouns
Using your scissors, cut out these nouns from the list below
and glue them to the table sheet into their various categories
masculine, feminine, neuter.
You may need to use your dictionary to find the meanings of someof
the words.
| .mare |
girl |
man |
woman |
stone |
| .cow |
boy |
girl |
lady |
gentleman |
| .drake |
cobb |
duck |
penn |
gander |
| .cock |
ewe |
goose |
ram |
table |
| .bottle |
house |
doe |
stag |
bull |
| .heifer |
filly |
stallion |
gate |
hall |
| .female |
field |
farm |
male |
vixen |
| .boar |
fox |
sow |
country |
actor |
| .governor |
actress |
governess |
shed |
king |
| .parlour |
princess |
god |
palace |
goddess |
| .prince |
road |
railway |
heir |
cabin |
| .heiress |
banjo |
countess |
cake |
count |
On the common/proper nouns table, place these words in their correct category.
| John |
boy |
Mary |
girl |
Dublin |
| .country |
street |
Patrick St. |
Clonard |
village |
| .daddy |
Brian |
Ireland |
county |
Meath |
| .Dáil Éireann |
president |
Navan |
river |
lake |
| .Sunday |
person |
Michael |
mum |
Brigid |
| .Lough Ennel |
teacher |
Mullingar |
Rome |
house |
On the space provided on the sheet, is there anything you would
like to say about common and proper nouns?