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1. 1.

   Put on your thinking hats and write a proper noun for each of these common nouns:

   country, diamond, ice cream, restaurant, shopping mall, school, street, state, neighbours, song, mobile, body lotion, dessert, drink

2. 2.

   Choose the correct nouns given in the box and fill in the blanks.

   audience; cowardice; boyhood; China; storybook; Christians; vegetables; ships; photographer; mountain

   1. Dairy is to milk as market is to ___________________.
   2. Ganga is to river as Everest is to ___________________.
   3. TinTin is to comic as Matilda is to ___________________.
   4. Fleet is to ___________________ as caravan is to camels.
   5. Joy is to sorrow as ___________________ is to bravery.
   6. Mosque is to Muslims as church is to.
   7. Concert is to ___________________ as spectators is to match.
   8. Boy is to ___________________ as move is to movement.
   9. Paris is to France as Beijing is to ___________________.
   10. Photograph is to ___________________  as painting is to artist.
3. 3.

   Keeping in mind that a collective noun takes a singular verb, fill in the blanks by choosing the right verb given in brackets.

   1. A flock of tourists ________________ (stands/stand) and ________________ at the Agra Fort. (gaze gazes)
   2. A shoal of fish ________________ (swim/swims) past us as are scuba diving in the Andamans. Up in the sky, a flock of birds ________________  past. (fly/flies)
   3. The jury ________________  (give/gives) its verdict. The bench of judges ________________ the court room. (leave/leaves)
   4. A gang of thieves ________________ (loots/loot) the bank and escapes the posse of constables which ________________ after them. (chase/chases)
   5. A team of players ________________ (practise/practises) for their match every morning while a herd of cows ________________ peacefully in the field. (grazes/graze)
4. 4.

   Form abstract nouns from these adjectives, verbs and common nouns with the help of the prefixes given. There will be change of spellings in some words. Consult the dictionary. Write the answers in your notebooks.

   Suffix	Word Adjectives	Abstract Noun
   1. ness	busy, bitter, eager, selfish, mean, ugly, serious	________________
   2. ity	equal, inferior, curious, generous	________________
   3. ence	innocent, confident, excellent, brilliant	________________
   4. cy	accurate, efficient, urgent, secret, vacant	________________
   5. ment	excite, develop, treat, advertise, achieve	________________
   6. ance	appear, abound, resist, guide	________________
   7. ion	act, celebrate, elect, revise, construct, express, possess, predict, react, disturb, perform	________________

    

   Suffix	Common nouns	Abstract Nouns
   8. hood	boy, brother, child, man, mother	________________
   9. ship	friend, member, partner, king, dictator	________________
   10. age	bond, parent, use, pilgrim	________________