A Grade 3 nouns worksheet that gives the rule first and then puts it to work.
It opens by defining a noun as a word that names a person, place, animal or thing, with three examples of each. Students then read 20 short sentences and mark every noun, including plurals such as students and birds and proper nouns such as Sarah and Toronto.
Nouns Practice — Click Every Noun
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Try these before or after you print the worksheet. Click every noun in the sentence, then press Check. You will be shown both the nouns you missed and the words you picked that are not nouns — which is the part a circled worksheet cannot tell you.
A noun names a person, place, animal or thing.
Names a…
Examples
Person
teacher, doctor, friend
Place
school, park, city
Animal
dog, elephant, bird
Thing
book, chair, pencil
Sentence 1
The dog ran across the yard.
dog (animal) and yard (place). ran is what the dog did, so it is a verb, and across just tells you where. (2 nouns)
Sentence 2
Sarah brought her lunch to school.
Sarah is a proper noun — a particular person — so it takes a capital letter wherever it sits in the sentence. lunch and school are nouns too. (3 nouns)
Sentence 3
We visited the zoo yesterday.
Only zoo. yesterday feels like a noun because it names a time, but here it tells you when you visited, which makes it an adverb. This one catches almost everybody. (1 noun)
Sentence 4
The students played in the playground.
students is a plural noun — more than one — and it is still a noun. playground is a place. (2 nouns)
Sentence 5
The boy read a book quietly.
boy and book. read is the verb here, and quietly describes how he read it. (2 nouns)
Sentence 6
My friend lives in Toronto.
friend and Toronto. Toronto is a proper noun: one particular city, so it is capitalised. (2 nouns)
Sentence 7
The farmer drove the tractor across the field.
Three nouns: farmer (person), tractor (thing), field (place). One sentence can hold several. (3 nouns)
Question 8
Which of these is a proper noun?
Toronto names one particular place, so it is a proper noun and always takes a capital letter. city names any city, which makes it a common noun.
Think about it
In We visited the zoo yesterday, why is yesterday not a noun even though it names a time?
Find three nouns in the room you are in now. Which are people, which are places, and which are things?
Play can be a verb (I play soccer) or a noun (we watched a play). Can you think of another word that works both ways?
Why do Sarah and Toronto get capital letters when girl and city do not?