english grammar lecture 9

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Grammatical Structure

First semester 1431H-1432H

Dr. Abdullah Al Fraidan

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NONCOUNT NOUNS

Whole groups or whole masses.

Furniture, coffee and sugar.

Abstract concepts.

Love, wisdom, spirituality.

Phenomenon of Nature

Sunshine, rain, snow.


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SOME COMMON NONCOUNT

NOUNS


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Whole groups made up of

similar items


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Fluids


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Gases


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Particles


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Abstractions


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Fields of Study


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Recreation


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Natural Phenomena


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Generic Nouns

Articles are used to make generalizations.Ais used for singular nouns

A banana is yellow.

An umbrella

An egg

0 is used for plural nouns and noncount nouns

0 Bananas are yellow.0 Fruit is good for you.


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Indefinite Nouns

Singular I ate a banana.

Plural count noun

(two, a few, several)

I ate some bananas.

Noncount noun(a little, a lot of)

I ate some fruit.


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Definite Nouns

The bananaI ate thismorning was delicious.

Singular

I got the applesfromthe tree.

Plural

The fruitfrom thatmarket is inexpensive.

Noncount


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Expressions of Quantity for Count

nouns

One

Each

Every

Two,three, etc.

A couple of

A few

Many

SeveralA number of


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Expressions of quantity for noncount

nouns

A little

Much

A great deal of


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Expressions of quantity for both count

and noncount nouns

no

Some/any

A lot of/lots of

Plenty of

Most

all


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Negative vs. Positive

She has few friends. She made a fewfriends.

I have little money. I saved a littlemoney.


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Go to the book pp. 57

Page 96 important


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