--- title: Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 2 «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» of the language course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / Nouns: the names of things, people, pl… # Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas The 15 questions of lesson 2 «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» of the language course of Mova's primary school with their options, 86 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/t1/) — Your mate goes "fear isn't a noun bro, you can't pick it up." What's the best reply? — wrong ✗ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/t2/) — Nan texts "meet u in leeds on friday x". If you wrote it up properly for school, which words would you capitalise? — right ✓ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/t3/) — A lad from Liverpool says "our kid's sound, he made me a chip butty." ("Sound" means nice, decent.) What happened? — right ✓ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/t4/) — Your sister rolls her eyes: "less sweets, fewer sweets, who cares, innit?" What's the fair answer? — wrong ✗ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/t5/) — What would happen if a word could never change its class? — wrong ✗ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/t6/) — A cartoon narrator says "Look, a murder of crows!" and everyone in the park nods. Is that how people really talk? — wrong ✗ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/t7/) — A Gen Alpha kid says "new words? no cap, that's sus, all words are mega old." ("Sus" means suspicious, doubtful.) What's true? — right ✓ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/t8/) — Rory says "maths ends in s, so it's 'maths are hard'." What's the right reply? — wrong ✗ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/t9/) — An American gran says "Your family are lovely" sounds weird. Is the British version wrong? — right ✓ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/t10/) — Grace says "scissors is sharp". Which is the usual form? — right ✓ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/t11/) — Is "smog" a noun? — right ✓ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/e1/) — Select the response that correctly enumerates the nouns contained in the sentence "The cat sat on the mat in the kitchen". — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises an abstract noun? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/e3/) — Pursuant to the conventions of careful written English, identify the correctly formulated expression. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/e4/) — In respect of the expressions "the team are" and "the team is", which statement is consistent with the established facts? — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [1. What language is: sounds, words and rules everyo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/1-what-language-is-sounds-words-and-rules/) - next →: [3. Verbs: doing words and being words](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/) - ↑ back to [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/)