nouns
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SINGULAR NOUNS
horse, plow, sky, land, water, sea (or ocean), sun, sunset, plowman, shepherd, fisherman, sailor, castle, cliff, city, clothing, (farm) equipment, wool, dirt
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PLURAL NOUNS
men, sheep, trees, branches, hooves, clothes, animals, mountains, clouds, ships, sails, waves, islands, plants (shrubs), furrows, shadows
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ABSTRACT AND MASS NOUNS
sunlight, air, water, warmth, quiet, serenity, boredom, business, work, weather, life, gravity, wind
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COLLECTIVE NOUN
flock or herd (of sheep)
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PROPER NOUN
Icarus is the name (proper noun) of the poor fellow falling out of the sky into the water (in the lower right-hand corner of the painting we see just his legs), as we should know from the title of the painting, "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus."
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WHAT ARE NOUNS?
Nouns are naming words. They name people, places and objects. They can also name ideas, emotions,
qualities and activities. Here are some examples of nouns: Peter, Elizabeth, driver, sister, friend. Bristol, Severn, Brazil, pen, dog,
money. love, beauty, industry, nature, greed,
pain.
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TYPES OF NOUN
All nouns can be divided into common and proper nouns.
Common nouns can then be divided into countable and uncountable nouns.
Both countable and uncountable nouns can then be further divided into concrete and abstract nouns.
We’ll look at each type in turn.
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FIRST, LOOK AGAIN AT THOSE TYPES AND HOW THEY RELATE.
nouns
proper
common
countable
uncountable
abstract
concrete
abstract
concrete
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PROPER NOUNS
Proper nouns start with capital letters.
They are the names of people, places, times, organisations etc.
They refer to unique individuals. Most are not found in the
dictionary. They often occur in pairs or
groups. Here are some examples.
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Tony Blair
King Henry
Bridget Jones
Christmas
China
Thames
Keynsham
Sony
Coca Cola
Macbeth
President Bush
The Jam
Coronation Street
Saturn
Carly
John
PortugalThe Ford Motor
Company
Oxfam
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COMMON NOUNS
All nouns which are not proper nouns are common nouns.
A few examples: cup, art, paper, work, frog, bicycle, atom, family, mind.
Common nouns are either countable or uncountable.
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COUNTABLE NOUNS
Use these tests for countable nouns: Countable (or just “count”) nouns can be
made plural: a tree… two trees; a man… men; a pony… ponies.
In the singular, they may have the article a or an: a sausage; an asterisk.
We ask: How many words/pages/chairs? We say: A few minutes/friends/chips?
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UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
Use these tests for uncountable nouns: Uncountable (or non-count) nouns cannot be
made plural. We cannot say: two funs, three advices or five furnitures.
We never use a or an with them. We ask: How much money/time/milk?
(Not How many?) We say: A little help/effort. (Not A few.)
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Like articles, quantifiers are words that precede and modify nouns. They tell us how many or how much.
The following quantifiers will work with count nouns: many trees a few trees few trees several trees a couple of trees none of the trees
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The following quantifiers will work with non-count nouns: not much dancing a little dancing little dancing a bit of dancing a good deal of dancing a great deal of dancing no dancing
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The following quantifiers will work with both count and non-count nouns:
all of the trees/dancing some trees/dancing most of the trees/dancing enough trees/dancing a lot of trees/dancing lots of trees/dancing plenty of trees/dancing a lack of trees/dancing
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audiencebandclasscommitteecrowddozen
familyflockgroupheapherdjury
kindlot[the] numberpublicstaffteam
There are, further, so called collective nouns, which are singular when we think of them as groups and plural when we think of the individuals acting within the whole (which happens sometimes, but not often).
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"A dozen is probably not enough." But if we're talking partying with our friends, we could say, "A dozen are coming over this afternoon."
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Note that "the number" is a singular collective noun. "The number of applicants is steadily increasing."
"A number," on the other hand, is a plural form: "There are several students in the lobby. A number are here to see the president."
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Collective nouns are count nouns which means they, themselves, can be pluralized:
a university has several athletic teams and classes.
the immigrant families kept watch over their herds and flocks.
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a colony of antsa brood of chickensa host of angelsa business of ferretsa murder of crowsa parliament of owlsa school/shoal of fisha flock of birdsa gaggle/flock of geesea mob of kangaroosa fleet of shipsa shiver of sharks
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a herd of cowsa flock of sheepa swarm of beesa pod of dolphinsa crowd of peoplea cloud of gnatsan army of antsa troop of baboons/monkeysa bench of magistratesa flight of stairsa bunch of bananasa string of pearls
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DUAL CATEGORY NOUNS
Some nouns may be countable or uncountable, depending on how we use them.
We buy a box of chocolates (countable) or a bar of chocolate (uncountable).
We ask: How much time? but How many times? (where times = occasions).
We sit in front of a television (set) to watch television (broadcasting).
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FIELD-SPECIFIC NOUNS
Uncountable nouns are often turned into countable nouns by specialists in a particular field.They become part of the jargon of that specialism.
Grass is usually uncountable but botanists and gardeners talk about grasses.
Linguists sometimes talk about Englishes. Financiers refer to moneys or even monies. Teas may be used to mean types of tea.
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CONCRETE NOUNS
Concrete nouns are the words that most people think of as nouns.
They are mostly the names of objects and animals (countable) and substances or materials (uncountable).
Cake, oxygen, iron, boy, dog, pen, glass, pomegranate, earthworm and door are all concrete nouns.
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ABSTRACT NOUNS
Abstract nouns name ideas, feelings and qualities.
Most, though not all, are uncountable. Many are derived from adjectives and
verbs and have characteristic endings such as –ity, -ness, -ence, and -tion.
They are harder to recognise as nouns than the concrete variety.
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ABSTRACT NOUN OR ADJECTIVE
You won’t confuse abstract nouns with adjectives, as long as you apply a few tests.
Happy is an adjective. It behaves like one: very happy; so happy; happier; as happy as
Happiness behaves like a noun: The happiness I feel; her happiness; great happiness.
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A few more examplesVerb or adjective Abstract
nounWe were different from each other.
The difference between us.
My work is precise.
I work with precision.
The air is pure.
The purity of the air.I composed this
tune.This tune is my composition.
It is so beautiful. It has such beauty.You support
me.The support you give me.
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IRREGULAR PLURALS
Some nouns retain plural endings from Old English:
Men, geese, mice, oxen, feet, teeth, knives. Loan words from Latin, Greek, French and
Italian sometimes keep their native ending: Media, bacteria, formulae, larvae, criteria,
phenomena, gateaux. Graffiti, an Italian plural, is now an
uncountable noun in English.
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Sources:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/noun_exercise2.htm
www.worldofteaching.com