11 types of noun and how to tell them apart
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11 TYPES OF NOUN
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Nouns are words which name people, places, things or ideas
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All of these words are nouns:
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sunlight, John, cat, Mexico, trust
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We can classify nouns in different ways…
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1. CONCRETE NOUNS
2. ABSTRACT NOUNS
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We can see, hear, taste, smell or touch the things that
CONCRETE nouns represent, for example:
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apple, friend, Sydney Opera House
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We can’t see, hear, taste, smell or touch the things
that ABSTRACT nouns represent:
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trust, knowledge, progress
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3. PROPER NOUNS
4. CONCRETE NOUNS
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PROPER nouns refer to a specific person, place or thing.
They start with a CAPITAL letter…
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Mark has a friend called John. They live in a house in
London.
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COMMON nouns don’t refer to a specific person, place or
thing…
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Mark has a friend called John. They live in a house in London.
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5. SINGULAR NOUNS
6. PLURAL NOUNS
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Nouns can be SINGULAR (only one)…
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The baby held up one foot and one hand.
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…or PLURAL (more than one)
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Babies have two feet and two hands.
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We usually add "s" to a singular noun to make it PLURAL:
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hand - hands
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But some nouns follow different rules, for example:
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baby – babies, foot – feet, wolf – wolves, mouse - mice
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7. COUNTABLE NOUNS
8. NON-COUNTABLE NOUNS
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We can count some nouns…
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1 apple
2 apples
3 apples
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…but there are some nouns we can’t count
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1 water
2 waters
3 waters
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We’d have to put water into glasses (or drops) to count it
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1 glass of water
2 glasses of water
3 glasses of water
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That’s why countable nouns can be singular or plural…
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apple
2 apples
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…but non-countable nouns can’t be made plural
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water
2 waters
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9. POSSESSIVE FORMS
OF NOUNS
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We use the POSSESSIVE form of a noun to show that it
"owns" something
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This is my daughter’s dog
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The children’s dinner is cold
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The birds’ nest is in the tree
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10. COLLECTIVE NOUNS
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COLLECTIVE nouns talk about a group of people
or things made up of individual parts
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The team was
playing well
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The audience is
clapping
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Collective nouns are singular if the individual parts
are acting together… The team was playing well
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…and plural if they are acting individually. The team
got in their cars.
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11. COMPOUND NOUNS
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We can stick two words together to make a COMPOUND
noun
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football, tablecloth
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city-state, tractor-trailer
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rocking chair, container ship
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