Identify Nouns and Adjectives

ByZahid Muzaffar Khan November 17, 2025November 17, 2025

In this interactive lesson, you will identify nouns and adjectives in simple, clear sentences. First, you review easy grammar notes that explain what nouns and adjectives are and how they work together in a sentence. Then, you practise with multiple choice questions, fill-in-the-blank tasks, matching games, word scrambles, flashcards, and sentence-building activities.

By working with real classroom-style examples, you will quickly become more confident when you read, write, and analyse English sentences, especially for quizzes, exams, and homework.

Interactive Grammar Activities — Identify Nouns and Adjectives

Interactive Grammar — Identify Nouns and Adjectives

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Grammar Notes: Nouns and Adjectives

In English sentences, nouns usually name people, places, things, or ideas, and adjectives describe or give more information about those nouns. In this lesson, you will practise identifying nouns and adjectives in simple, clear sentences.

1. What is a noun?

A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.

People: student, teacher
Places: city, library
Things: exam, phone
Ideas: happiness, time

Example: The student is in the library. (student, library = nouns)

2. What is an adjective?

An adjective describes a noun. It tells us what kind, which one, or how many.

Describing feeling or opinion: happy, difficult, interesting
Describing size or amount: small, big, many
Describing quality: quiet, crowded, expensive

Example: It is a quiet library. (quiet = adjective describing library)

3. Where do adjectives go?

Adjectives can come before a noun or after a verb like be.

Before a noun: a big city, a happy student
After be: The city is crowded. The exam is difficult.

Tip: If a word describes a noun (colour, opinion, size, etc.), it is usually an adjective.

4. Noun or adjective?

A word can appear near a noun but still be a noun itself. Look at the job it does in the sentence.

Noun: The teacher gives a quiz. (teacher = person)
Adjective: The quiz is easy. (easy = describes quiz)

Always ask: Does this word name something (noun) or describe a noun (adjective)?

Activity 1: Multiple Choice Quiz

Read each sentence and identify the noun or adjective, as the question says.

1. Which word is the noun? “The happy student smiles.”

happy student smiles

2. Which word is the adjective? “The bus is crowded today.”

bus crowded today

3. Which word is the noun? “Riyadh is a large city.”

large city a

4. Which word is the adjective? “The exam is difficult.”

exam difficult is

5. Which word is the noun? “The quiet library helps me study.”

quiet library helps

6. Which word is the adjective? “The teacher feels happy today.”

teacher happy today

7. Which word is the noun? “The strict teacher starts the class on time.”

strict teacher time

8. Which word is the adjective? “This laptop is very expensive.”

laptop very expensive

9. Which word is the noun? “The old city is beautiful at night.”

old city beautiful

10. Which word is the adjective? “Some students think grammar is difficult.”

students grammar difficult

Activity 2: Fill in the Blanks

The word in quotation marks is highlighted. Write “noun” or “adjective” in the blank to show what type of word it is.

1. The “student” is very tired. The word “student” is a .

Clue: “student” names a person.

2. It is a “crowded” bus this morning. The word “crowded” is an .

Clue: “crowded” describes the bus.

3. The “library” has many computers. The word “library” is a .

Clue: “library” is a place.

4. It is a very “difficult” exam. The word “difficult” is an .

Clue: “difficult” describes the exam.

5. The “city” is busy at night. The word “city” is a .

Clue: “city” is a place.

6. She has an “expensive” phone. The word “expensive” is an .

Clue: “expensive” describes the phone.

7. Our “teacher” is friendly. The word “teacher” is a .

Clue: “teacher” is a person.

8. It is a “quiet” classroom. The word “quiet” is an .

Clue: “quiet” describes the classroom.

9. The “exam” starts at nine. The word “exam” is a .

Clue: “exam” is an event/thing.

10. They live in a very “busy” street. The word “busy” is an .

Clue: “busy” describes the street.

Activity 4: Flashcards

Click on each card to see if the word is a noun or an adjective, and read an example sentence.

Card 1 of 10

student

Click to see if this is a noun or an adjective.

Noun – a person who studies. Example: The student is early today.

Click to go back.

Activity 5: Word Scramble

Unscramble the letters to make a correct noun or adjective. Read the clue to help you.

1. Unscramble this noun:

STDNEUT

Clue: a person who studies at school or college.

2. Unscramble this adjective:

PYHPA

Clue: the opposite of sad.

3. Unscramble this noun:

TYCI

Clue: a big place where many people live and work.

4. Unscramble this adjective:

TEQUI

Clue: this word describes a place with little or no noise.

5. Unscramble this noun:

LBARIRY

Clue: a place with many books and tables.

6. Unscramble this adjective:

FFDUCILIT

Clue: this word describes something that is not easy.

7. Unscramble this noun:

EHATERC

Clue: a person who helps students learn.

8. Unscramble this adjective:

SNEEIXVPE

Clue: this word describes something that costs a lot of money.

9. Unscramble this noun:

MAXE

Clue: a test you take at the end of a unit or course.

10. Unscramble this adjective:

DWCORECD

Clue: this word describes a place with too many people.

Activity 6: Sentence Builder

Write complete sentences that clearly show nouns and adjectives in use. Click ‘Check Sentence’ for basic writing analysis. For more accuracy in writing and to find additional mistakes, use this Writing Assessment Tool .

Writing Analysis: Feedback uses symbols like cap (capitalization), p (punctuation), wm (word missing), frag (fragment).

Use the noun “student” in a sentence:

Use the noun “city” in a sentence:

Use the noun “exam” in a sentence:

Use the noun “library” in a sentence:

Use the noun “teacher” in a sentence:

Use the adjective “happy” in a sentence:

Use the adjective “quiet” in a sentence:

Use the adjective “crowded” in a sentence:

Use the adjective “difficult” in a sentence:

Use the adjective “expensive” in a sentence:

Activity 3: Matching Game

Match each word on the left with the correct description on the right (noun or adjective with a short explanation).

Words

student

teacher

city

library

exam

happy

quiet

crowded

difficult

expensive

Descriptions

Noun – a person who studies at a school or college.

Noun – a person who helps students learn in class.

Noun – a large place where many people live and work.

Noun – a quiet place with books, tables and computers.

Noun – an important test you take for a course.

Adjective – feeling good and positive, not sad.

Adjective – with little or no noise.

Adjective – with too many people in a place.

Adjective – not easy to do or understand.

Adjective – costing a lot of money.

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