singular & plural nouns

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NOUN

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A noun is a word used to refer to people, animals, objects, substances, states, events and feelings. Nouns can be a subject or an object of a verb, can be modified by an adjective and can take an article or determiner.

For example:

TablePencilThe dogA white houseNouns also denote abstract and intangible concepts.

For example:

birthhappinessevolutiontechnology, etc.

 The names of specific things, people, or places.

Example: Jhon, France. They usually begin with a capital letter.

Peter lives in Spain.Many people

dread Monday mornings.

General names such as person, mansion, and book. They can be either concrete or abstract.

Example : People: man, woman, girl, baby, son, dughther,

policeman, teacher Animals: cat, dog, fish, ant, snake Things: bear, book, boat, table, chair, phone Places: bank, school, city, building, shop Ideas: love, hate, idea, pride

Refer to things which you can touched, smelled, seen, felt, or tasted.

Example : Steak, table, dog, Maria, salt, and wool.

Can I pet your dog? Please pass the salt. Your sweater is made of fine wool.

More ethereal, theoretical concepts use abstract nouns to refer to them. 

Example : freedom, love, power, and redemption are all examples of abstract nouns.

They hate us for our freedom. All you need is love. We must fight thepower.

Refer to things which can be counted (can be singular or plural)

There is a bike in that garage.In this example, the word bike is singular as it refers to one bike that is presently residing in a particular garage.

However, bike can also occur in the plural form. There are six broken bikes in that garage.In

this example, the noun bikes refers to more than one bike as it is being modified by the numeral six.

Refer to some groups of countable nouns, substances, feelings and types of activity (can only be singular)

That garage is full of clutter.This sentence makes grammatical sense. However, the following example does not.

That garage is full of clutters.Mass nouns can not take plural forms, and therefore a sentence containing the word clutters is ungrammatical.

By adding “s” Examples:

Bananas shoes ducks

By adding “es” to nouns that end in “s”, “ss”, “x”, “ch”, “sh” and “o”.

Examples:

Buses classes boxes watches bushes

By adding “ies” to nouns ending in “y”

Examples: Exceptions:

Baby Babies Valley valleys

lady ladies Key keys

Boy boys

By adding “ves” to nouns ending in “f”

Examples: Exceptions:

Calf calves Dwarf dwarfs

Shelf shelves Hoof hoofs

Loaf loaves Roof roofs

Complete change Examples:

Child children

Ox oxen

Foot feet

Tooth teeth

Goose geese

Man men

Mouse mice

Without change Examples:

Deer deer

Sheep sheep

Clothing clothing

Furniture furniture

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