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Nouns

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Noun
 is the name of a person, animal, place, thing or idea. It is also known as naming words.

 

Click the the image above to look over unto the classifications of nouns:

 


Kinds of Nouns


PROPER NOUNS

A proper noun is the specific name of a person, place, animal, thing, and event. It always starts with a CAPITAL letter.

Examples:

Luisa Reyes, Luneta Park, Valentine's Day, 

 

Exercise:


Click the image below for Proper Noun games.

 

COMMON NOUNS

 A common noun is the general name of a person, place, animal, thing and idea.


Examples:

waitress, mall, lion, bag, love 

 

Exercise:

Click the image below for Common Noun games.
 

 


Classifications of Common Nouns


  1. Count and Non-Count Nouns

  2. Concrete and Abstract Nouns

  3. Collective and Compound Nouns

 

Count and Non-Count Nouns


Count Nouns (countable nouns) - are nouns that can be counted. They have singular and plural forms.  A singular count noun must have a determiner.

Determiner - is a modifier of a noun that provides more information about the noun such as how much and by whom. 

 

Articles

Demonstratives

Possessives

Quantifiers

a/ an (indefinite)

the (definite)

this

that

these

those

my

our

their

her

his

its

 

many

a few

several

a couple of

none of the

 

Examples:

 

Count noun: doctor

Sentence: I have to see my doctor to get the medical test results.

 

Count noun: pencil

Sentence: This pencil belongs to Jean.

 

Count noun: cockroach

Sentence: I saw a cockroach inside the pantry.

 

Count noun: town

Sentence: Typhoon Yolanda hit several towns in Leyte.

 

 

Non-count Nouns (Uncountable or Mass Nouns) - are nouns that are not countable.  It has no plural form. They are quantified by a word that signifies amount.

 

Some quantifiers that will work with mass nouns are:

 

Quantifiers

not much

a little

a bit of

a good deal of

a great deal of

 

Examples

 

Mass noun: sugar

Sentence: There’s not much sugar in the canister.

 

Mass noun: advice

Sentence: Collin gave him a bit of advice to solve his problem.

 

 

There are quantifiers that will work with both count and non-count nouns.

 

Quantifiers

all of the

some

most of the

enough

a lot of

lots of

plenty of

 

Examples:

 

Count noun: bird

Sentence: We saw a lot of birds flying in the park.

 

Mass noun: money

Sentence: There’s a lot of money in his pocket.

 

Count noun: seat

Sentence: There are enough seats for the participants who will join the convention.

 

Mass noun: food

Sentence: There is enough food for the parishioners.

 

Exercise:

Click the image below for Count and Non-count Noun games.

 

 

Concrete and Abstract Nouns

 

Concrete Nouns – are nouns that we can see, hear, smell, taste and touch. These include persons, animals, places and objects. An example of this is pizza – it registers with our senses. You can see, touch, smell and taste it.

 

Other Examples:

 

watch

baby

cat

mountain

 

Concrete noun: gun

Sentence: Three guns were confiscated from the students after the incident,

 

Concrete noun: customer

Sentence:  An upset customer was given a compensation for being misled by the sales person.

 

Abstract Nouns – are nouns that are not tangible. They are not perceivable by the 5 senses. These include state of mind, qualities, ideas, conditions and events.

 

Examples:

Events: vacation, childhood, war

State of mind: courage, grief, anger

Qualities: truth, kindness, beauty

Ideas:  democracy, energy, luck

Conditions: diabetes, cancer, flu

 

There are abstract nouns that cannot be pluralized. Examples of these are the following:

 

education

hospitality

chaos

 

In terms of quantifiers and words that precede these words, what we say about the non-count nouns, above, can be said about abstract nouns.

 

Examples:

 

Abstract Noun: courage

Sentence:  Your courage was unbelievable during those tough times.

 

Abstract Noun: memory

Sentence: Our memories in California are truly priceless.

 

Exercise:

Click the image below for Concrete and Abstract Noun games.
 


 

 

 

Collective and Compound Nouns

 

Collective Nouns – are nouns which refer to a group of people, animals or things. These nouns take a singular verb when all members of the group are performing an action as a unit.

 

Examples:

 

Collective noun: staff

Sentence: The staff thinks new ideas to increase their production.

 

Collective noun: a colony of ants

Sentence: A colony of ants is found inside Gavin’s room where he left candy wrappers.

 

We can use a plural verb when all members of the collective noun are performing an action as individuals:

 

Example:

 

Collective noun: cast

Sentence: The cast are rehearsing their lines for their upcoming movie.

 

In many cases, it may sound more natural to make the subject plural in form by adding a word like “members”.

 

Examples:

Collective noun: team

Sentence: The team members work until midnight to present the output the following day.

 

Collective noun: family

Sentence: Our family members pray the rosary for the early recovery of Aunt Jean.

 

Exercise:

Click the image below for Collective Noun games.

 

 

Compound Nouns – are nouns that are consist of 2 or more words to form a single noun.  There are three forms for compound nouns:

 

  1. Open or spaced - written as separate words (ex. buko juice, turn off)  
  2. Hyphenated - words linked by a hyphen (ex. father-in-law, check-in) 
  3. Closed or solid - one word (ex. butterfly, basketball) 

 

                They also have different combinations:

 

COMBINATION

WORD

MEANING

USED IN A SENTENCE

noun + noun

water tank

a container for storing water

A water tank is the needed in their community for safe drinking water, agricultural farming and fire
suppression.

noun + verb

sunrise

the rise or ascent of the sun above the horizon in the morning.

It's a beautiful experience to see the sunrise from the mountaintop.

noun + verb (ing)

housekeeping

it is the management of duties and
chores involved in the running of a household.

TESDA offers scholarships for those who are interested to undergo the training for housekeeping.

verb (ing) + noun

washing machine

is a machine to wash laundry, such as clothing and sheets.

She will buy a washing machine to start her laundry business.

verb + preposition

check-out

the time by which a hotel room must be vacated to avoid another day's charge.

Remember that check-out is at 12 noon so pack your things as soon as possible.

adjective + noun

blackboard

a green or black panel usually found in a classroom for writing or drawing on with
chalk

She wrote the scientific formula
on the blackboard

 

Exercise:

Click the image below for Compound Noun games. 
 

 


Sources:


Sites

http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/nouns.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/nouns.htm

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http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-compound.htm

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http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/massnouns/

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https://sites.google.com/site/agrammaroferrors/1-1-the-noun-phrase/1-4/1-4-2

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http://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/bien-well/fra-eng/grammaire-grammar/svacn-eng.html

http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/nouns/what/what-is-a-determiner.html

 

Mindmap

https://bubbl.us/

Wordle

http://tagul.com/

Images

http://www.amazingclassroom.com/individual_whiteboard_resource_pack.asp?RID=92

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