Nouns Nouns

1) A noun is a word which is used as the name of anything. It may be the name of people, places and objects. Here are some examples of nouns: Fitri, Alif, driver, sister, friend. Brazil, pen, dog, money. Love, beauty, industry, nature, greed, pain. 2) All nouns can be divided into common and proper nouns.

Nouns Proper Countable Abstract

A) Proper nouns

Common Uncountable Abstract Concrete

Concrete

1. Proper nouns start with capital letters. 2. They are the names of people, places, times, organisations etc. 3. They refer to unique individuals. 4. Most are not found in the dictionary. 5. They often occur in pairs or groups. 6. Examples:
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Nouns Place Janda Baik Tasik Dayang Bunting People Hafizudin Lee Ann David Animal Comel Sally

7. All nouns which are not proper nouns are common nouns. A few examples: cup, art, paper, work, frog, bicycle, atom, family, mind.

B) Common nouns

Nouns name people, places, and things. Every noun can further be classified as common or proper. A common noun names general items. Common nouns Coffe shops Country Proper nouns Starbucks Zimbabwe

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Countable

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 determiner a or an: a sausage; an asterisk. We ask: How many words/pages/chairs? We say: A few minutes/friends/chips? bii) Uncountable

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.)

- Concrete Nouns & Abstract Nouns

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Nouns One class of nouns is concrete. You can experience this group of nouns with your five senses: you see them, hear them, smell them, taste them, and feel them.

See

Smell

Taste

Hear

Touch

Ice cream, for example, is a concrete noun. You can see the pink. You can taste the berry flavor. You can feel your tongue growing numb from the cold. Any noun that you can experience with at least one of your five senses is a concrete noun. Don't confuse a concrete noun with an abstract noun !! Not all nouns are concrete. A second class of nouns is abstract. You cannot experience abstract nouns with your senses. Read this example: Diane pushed Reliable off her lap to register her disapproval. Disapproval is an example of an abstract noun. What color is disapproval? You don't know because you cannot see it. What texture is disapproval? Who knows? You cannot touch it. What flavor is disapproval? No clue! You cannot taste it! Does it make a sound? Of course not! Does it smell? Not a bit! Concrete nouns Student Dog Student Abstract nouns Intelligence Loyalty Bravery

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