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Class 6 English — Kinds of nouns and pronouns

Sort a noun into its kind, and choose the pronoun that stands in for a noun.

Name: ________________________

  1. 1.Choose the word that completes the sentence: ____ shoes over there are mine.

    • a) Those
    • b) It
    • c) That
    • d) This

  2. 2.Match each collective noun to what it names a group of.

    • a flock
    • a bunch
    • a fleet
    • a swarm
    • a bundle
    • sticks
    • ships
    • grapes
    • birds
    • bees

  3. 3.Write the abstract noun made from the adjective "kind".

  4. 4.Which word is a collective noun?

    • a) flock
    • b) sheep
    • c) field
    • d) shepherd

  5. 5.Sort each noun by its kind.

    Groups: Common noun · Proper noun · Abstract noun

    • Africa
    • Tuesday
    • honesty
    • teacher
    • river
    • courage

  6. 6.One of these is printed wrongly, because it is a proper noun and needs a capital letter. Which one?

    • a) school
    • b) december
    • c) teacher
    • d) month

  7. 7.Write the one word that replaces "the girls'" in this sentence: The girls packed the girls' lunch.

  8. 8.Match each subject pronoun to the object pronoun that goes with it.

    • I
    • he
    • she
    • we
    • they
    • her
    • him
    • us
    • me
    • them

Answer key — Class 6 English — Kinds of nouns and pronouns

  1. 1. a) Those
  2. 2. a flock → birds; a bunch → grapes; a fleet → ships; a swarm → bees; a bundle → sticks
  3. 3. kindness
  4. 4. a) flock
  5. 5. river → Common noun; Tuesday → Proper noun; honesty → Abstract noun; teacher → Common noun; Africa → Proper noun; courage → Abstract noun
  6. 6. b) december
  7. 7. their
  8. 8. I → me; he → him; she → her; we → us; they → them