Place Nouns

English (Mridang) — Our Smart Helpers / Together We Grow. Place nouns like school, market, and hospital appear in community stories in Mridang.

• Place nouns name where we go or where things are — school, park, home.
• To tell a place noun from a thing noun.
• That names of cities and countries use a capital letter.

Verbal: A place noun answers Where? — school, park, home, Delhi.

Symbolic: Where question → place noun. Proper places: Mumbai, India, Kerala — always capital.

Level 1 — Common place nouns

Level 1 — More places

Hospital, market, temple, library, playground — all name places.

Level 2 — Proper place nouns

Delhi, Mumbai, India, Kerala — special names; capital letter.

Level 2 — Place vs thing

Table is a thing (object). Classroom is a place (room where we learn).

Find the place noun: 'We bought mangoes at the market.'

Step 1 — Read the sentence
Step 2 — Where did they go? → **market**
Step 3 — Market names a place
Answer: market

• Name two places in your town.
• Place noun in: 'Birds live in the nest.' (Hint: nest is a place for birds.)
• Is India a place noun?

Stretch: Write two sentences — one with a common place (market) and one with a proper place (your city).

Revision tip: Draw a map from home to school — label three place nouns on the route.

Open the Practice tab for graded questions on Place Nouns.