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Nouns:
Kinds of nouns:
1-Common:
Cat/dog/boy/girl/table/banana/volcano/song/man/
woman/child/lion/country/city/River/street/garden/
lake/museum/school/hospital/house/theatre/book/
magazine/ Dictionary/
2-
Proper:
France/Mariam/London/French/Town Hall/Cairo/The Nile/
Proper nouns are the special names that we give to people,
places and particular things like the days of the week, months of the year, or
even the titles of books or TV shows.
3-
Abstract:
Abstract nouns represent ideas, and have no physical
substance that you can see or touch.
The idea may be of
quality:
Beauty/greed/intelligence/sweetness/height/colour/
cleverness/generosity
The idea may be a
state that is felt or suffered:
Joy/sadness/misery/youth/energy/poverty
It may be the act
of something:
Duty/aggression/love/hatred/revenge/choice/ laughter/smile
It may even be an
event or happening:
Conversation/pause
1-Collective:
A collective noun is the name of a group of persons or
things taken as one complete undivided whole:
Team/group/crowd/jury/fleet/navy/army/company/regiment/government/empire/
Congregation[a number of
people gathering in a church]
Committee/audience/crew/staff/race/family/police/
team/flock/pack[a number of wolves]
herd[a number of cattle] swarm[a number of
bees]
Bundle/bunch/library/forest/a choir/cast [people in a play]
Queue/mob/litter/union/troop/compendium/council
The material noun:
Water/salt/milk/fish/gold/silver/copper/iron
Compound nouns:
Schoolmaster/shopkeeper/shoemaker/housemaid/moon-light/tea-time/
Sandstorm
Partitive nouns:
A sheet of paper/a piece of
cheese/an item of information/a handful of
earth/
A group of people/a pair of shoes/a
parcel of books
Making plurals
Formation
of the plurals:
By adding ‘S’ to the singular:
Book :books/cat :cats/bird :birds/rose
:roses/map :maps/house :houses/
By adding ‘ES’ for words ending in: sh/ch/x/s/z/o
Branch :branches/match :matches
If the ‘CH’ is not soft, the plural is formed by adding ‘S’:
Monarch :monarchs
More examples:
Wish :wishes/box :boxes/mass :masses/dress :dresses/fez
:fezes
cargo :cargoes/buffalo :buffaloes/echo :echoes
If
the letter “O” is preceded by a vowel, the plural is formed by adding ‘S’ only:
Radio :radios/studio
:studios/ Bamboo :bamboos/tattoo :tattoos/
Video
:videos/zoo :zoos/kangaroo :kangaroos
Some
nouns that end in ‘O’ add only ‘S’to form the plural:
Auto :autos/photo :photos/piano
:pianos/solo :solos/soprano :sopranos/
Ghetto :ghettos/kilo :kilos/memo :memos/video :videos/ hippo :hippos/ Zoo :Zoos/ Kangaroo :kangaroos
Some nouns
that end in O add either ES or S:
Memento :mementoes or mementos/
Mosquito :mosquitoes or mosquitos/
Tornado :tornadoes or tornados/
Volcano :volcanoes or volcanos/
Zero :zeroes
or zeros/
Formation of the
plural by changing the ‘y’
preceded by a consonant to ‘ies’:
Lady :ladies/story :stories/duty :duties/fly
:flies
‘y’preceded by a vowel + ‘S’:
boy :boys/key :keys/toy :toys/day :days/
Formation of the plural by changing the
‘F’ or ‘FE’ to ‘ves’:
Leaf :leaves/ wife :wives/loaf :loaves/knife
:knives/shelf :shelves/
Thief :thieves/half :halves/wolf :wolves/life
:lives/calf :calves/
Scarf :scarfs or scarves
Words, ending in ‘ief’,
‘oof’, ‘eef’ or ‘rf’, generally take only ‘S’:
Chief :chiefs/handkerchief :
handkerchiefs/proof
:proofs/gulf :gulfs/
Grief :griefs/belief :beliefs/dwarf :dwarfs/reef :reefs/roof
:roofs/hoof :hoofs
Safe :safes/turf :turfs/cliffs
Exercise
Find the mistake in
each of the following sentences, then write them correctly:
1-
Will you
have a coffee?
2-
A
happiness is not richness.
3-
Today is
the Monday, would next Friday suit you?
4-
A high dam
is a fantastic project.
5-
No news
are good news.
6-
His wife
plays a piano.
7-
President
held a press conference.
Irregular plurals:
Man :men/woman :women/foot :feet/goose
:geese/tooth :teeth/louse
:lice/
mouse :mice/ox :oxen.
Some nouns have the same singular and plural
form:
Deer
:deer/fish :fish/sheep :sheep/swine :swine/duck :duck/shrimp :shrimp/
Offspring :offspring/means
:means/species
:species/series :series/salmon :salmon
Some nouns that English has borrowed from other
languages have foreign plurals:
1-
criterion
: criteria
2-
phenomenon :phenomena
3-
cactus
: cacti
4-
fungus
: fungi
5-
nucleus
: nuclei
6-
stimulus
: stimuli
7-
syllabus : syllabi
8-
formula : formulae
9-
vertebra
: vertebrae
appendix : appendices
index : indices
analysis : analyses
basis : bases
crisis crises
hypothesis : hypotheses
oasis :
oases
parenthesis : parentheses
thesis : theses
bacterium : bacteria
curriculum : curricula
datum : data
medium : media
memorandum : memoranda
collective numerals:[words showing number, weight, money
and power]
Dozen :dozen/ score :score/gross :gross/brace
:brace/yoke :yoke
Study these:
1-a nine-year old boy
2-a fortnight
3-a ten- pound note
4-a three-foot rule
5-an eight day work
6-a ten-piaster piece
7- two dozen eggs
8-three hundred pounds
9-four thousand people
10-two gross of pencils
11-three score years
12-three stone of fruit
13-3000 candle-power lamp
14-40 horse-power engine
15-forty head of cattle
16-two yoke of oxen
17-four million, five hundred thousand, two hundred and one
When the
above words have no numerals in front of them they take ‘S’
except Gross:
Dozens of eggs
Hundreds of pounds
Many dozens
We can say that the house is 30 foot or feet high.
We can say that the hall is 5 yard or yards long.
Some nouns have no plural form:[most abstract and material nouns]
Alphabet/expenditure/furniture/scenery/information/offspring/poetry
Dust/tea/ sand/
advice/luggage/baggage/weather/work/bread/oil/
soap
Air/shopping/ camping/glass/ cup/ coffee/knowledge/
milk/happiness/conduct/ wine /beer/rice/ furniture/ money/ information/damage
Some nouns have no
singular form:
Scissors/cards/compasses/alms/billiards/thanks/
people/dominoes/contents/
Goods/riches/wages/amends/police/clothes
Some nouns are
singular although they look like plural:
News/mathematics/economics/
Some collective
nouns that refer to one group are used as singular:
Two weeks is enough time.
Five pounds is not enough money.
Six miles is a long way to walk every day.
The possessive
case of singular nouns is [’s]:
The jockey’s horse
One day’s work
My father’s watch
The kid’s doll
The possessive
case of plural nouns is[s’]:
The boys’ toys
Two days’ work
Five weeks’ holiday
In compound nouns
the[’] is put only after the last part:
Romeo and Juliet’s love
Ali Baba’s story
One word compound
nouns:
Football/rainfall/sunbathing/classroom/teamwork/headache/toothache
Compound nouns
with two separate words:
Bus stop/police station/ film star/pen friend/post office/
Compound nouns
with two separate words with a hyphen:
Horse-riding/grown-up/father-in-law
Miscellaneous:
1-
Fish and
chips is one of the most common English dishes.
2-
Either my
brother or my parents are going to bring the
sleeping bags.
3-
German
measles is a particularly dangerous illness for
pregnant women.
4-
Scissors are used to cut the jeans.
5-
Two meters
isn’t particularly tall these days.
6-
Politics is a topic best avoided with people you don’t know
well.
7-
Twenty-four
hours is a long time in politics.
8-
The family
has agreed that the funeral should be held in
Ireland.
9-
The family
are all gathering here for Christmas.
10-The majority of people were pleased
to see the government fall.
11-She has a five-year-old
son.
12-We need a ten-minute break.
13-The United Nations has agreed
to deploy a peacekeeping force.
14-The United Nations are
in disagreement on this issue.
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