Noun

February 17, 2023 2 Mins Read
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Noun Quiz covers the important topic of the English section of various competitive exams like UPSC, SSC, IBPS, EPFO, RRB, CET, State PCS, etc.

Noun Quiz
Noun Quiz

Rewrite the following sentence correctly.

1. There are only a few vendor who have the potential to complete such a huge project within such a short time.

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Explanation:

Replace “a few vendor” with “a few vendors”. A few will always be followed by a plural noun.

2. He takes pain over his work.

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Explanation:

Replace “Takes pain” with “takes pains”. Pain is physical pain and pains means to make a good effort.

3. Whenever he goes to Mumbai he stays in five-stars hotels.

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Explanation:

Replace “five-stars” by “five-star” as we do not change hyphenated words to plural.

4. I like the poetries of Byron and Shelley.

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Explanation:

Replace “poetries” with “poetry” there is no word as poetries.

Key Point: These nouns are used in singular form only and they are in uncountable form only.

Scenery, Poetry, Furniture, Advice, Information, Hair, Business, Mischief, Bread, Stationery, Crockery, Luggage, Baggage, Postage, Knowledge, Wastage, Money, Jewellery, Equipment, Work, Evidence, Word, Fuel.

5. The principle is on leave for the next two days.

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Explanation:

We are talking about the head of an institution here. The correct spelling is “principal”.

6. As one of the leader management institutes in India it has the highest number of students placed in International Banks.

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Explanation:

Replace “leader” with “leading”. An adjective has to be used here and not a noun. Leader is a noun. The right sentence will be “As one of the leading management institutes………. (Verb+ing is used as an adjective also. Eg- Dancing shoes, talking parrot, etc.)

7. All his sister-in-laws are highly cooperative and she doesn’t miss his real sisters at all.

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Explanation:

Replace “Sister-in-laws” with “Sisters-in-law”. The plural form of “Sister-in-laws” is “Sisters-in-law”.

8. They left their luggages at home by mistake and went to the railway station.

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Explanation:

Replace “luggages” with “luggage”.

9. Aims are given to the poors.

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Explanation:

Replace “the poors” with “the poor”.

Expressions like “the poor”, “the deaf”, “the blind” etc are always plural. We don’t have to make their plural forms by adding “s”.

10. Towns after towns were conquered by him but he found no peace.

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Explanation:

Replace “Towns after towns” with “Town after town”. If there is the same noun before and after preposition, then we always use the singular noun form.

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