Learn English Language: Exercise 01

Exercise

1. From your reading bring up sentences containing ten common nouns, five proper, five abstract. NOTE. Remember that all sentences are to be selected from standard literature.

2. Under what class of nouns would you place (a) the names of diseases, as pneumonia, pleurisy, catarrh, typhus, diphtheria; (b) branches of knowledge, as physics, algebra, geology, mathematics?

3. Mention collective nouns that will embrace groups of each of the following individual nouns: man, horse, bird, fish, partridge, pupil, bee, soldier, book, sailor, child, sheep, ship, ruffian

4. Using dictionary, tell from what word each of these abstract nouns is derived:—

sight, speech, motion, pleasure, patience, friendship, deceit, bravery, height, width, wisdom, regularity, advice, seizure, nobility, relief, death, raid, honesty, judgment, belief, occupation, justice, service, trail, feeling, choice, simplicity

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