4 Excellent Grammar Exercises for Aspects of Nouns

Aspects of Nouns

1 Countable and uncountable nouns sorting (with answers)

One of the most confusing thing for ESL students is distinguishing between countable and uncountable nouns. In the handout below students try to identify countable and uncountable nouns in the pictures and and list them in the appropriate columns. Then they choose 5 nouns and write 5 sentences.

Sorting countable and uncountable nouns exercise with answers

Nouns sorting (PDF)

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2 Quantifiers (with answers)

Another aspect of using nouns is being to use quantifiers which describe the degree or quantity of a specific noun.
Students look at each pictures and then write an appropriate sentence to describe how much or how little of each noun is being expressed by the picture.

Quantifiers or determiners English grammar exercise

Quantifiers (PDF)

3 Nouns Quantities/quantifiers

This is another exercise focusing on quantities and quantifiers.

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4 Abstract Nouns (with answers)

Abstract nouns are words that can represent concepts, states and conditions.
Pictures and photos can often be used to help students visualize abstract nouns !
In the exercise below students try to match the abstract nouns to the pictures and complete the sentences.