NOUNSNOUNS

Defenition of Nouns

• Noun is a word used as the names of a person, place, or thing.

Example : Heru, book, cat, school

SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNSINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUN

• Singular noun is a noun that denotes one person, place, or one thing.e.g. boy, girl, butterfly, flower, dictionary, pencil

• Plural noun is a noun that denotes more than one person, place or more than one thing.e.g. boys, girls, butterflies, flowers, dictionaries, pencils.

CHANGING THE SINGULAR INTO PLURALCHANGING THE SINGULAR INTO PLURAL

1. The plural nouns is generally formed by adding -s to the singular

e.g. boy → boys pen → pens

girl → girls pencil → pencils

2. If the noun ending in -s, -sh, -ch, or -x, the plural form by adding -es to the singular

e.g. dish → dishes watch → watches

class → classes box → boxes

3. If the noun ending in -y, preceded by a consonant, form their plural by changing -y into -i and adding -es

e.g. army → armies lady → ladies

copy → copies butterfly → butterflies

4. Several nouns ending in -f or -fe, form their plural by changing -f, or -fe into -v and adding -es

e.g. knife → knives leaf → leaves

life → lives thief → thieves

5. Most nouns ending in -o also form the plural by adding -es to the singular

e.g. buffalo → buffaloes mango → mangoes

hero → heroes potato → potatoes

6. A few nouns ending in -o, generally those which are in less common use and abbreviations, merely add -s.

e.g. bamboo → bamboos hindoo → hindoos

Solo → Solos photo → photos

7. A few nouns form their plural by changing the inside vowel of the singular.

e.g. man → men woman → women

foot → feet mouse → mice

8. There are a few nouns that form their plural by adding –en to the singular.

e.g. ox → oxen child → children

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNNOUN

Countable noun is a noun which come from singular. They can also be made plural by the addition of -s.

e.g. one girl two girls

three boys

Uncountable noun is not used in the plural. Mass noun form one type of uncountable noun. They aaer words for concrete objects stated in an undivided quantity.

e.g. coffesugarWatersalt

ABSTRACT AND CONCRETE NOUNSABSTRACT AND CONCRETE NOUNS

Abstarct noun is word for concept. It is an idea that exist in our minds only such as the name of quality, action, or state considered apart form the object to which it belongs.

e.g. QUALITY : kindness, bravery, wisdom ACTION : justice, movement, hatred

STATE : youth, death, boyhood

Concrete noun is a word for a physical object that can be perceived by the sense such as seeing, touching , and smelling the object.

e.g. SEEING : scenery, cloud

TOUCHING : fire, ice

SMELLING : flower, perfume