Nouns

By Miss Paulina Lobos

NounsThey refer to persons, objects, or abstract concepts.

They are usually the main word in a sentence.Typical endings that help you to recognize nouns are:

TION- ER - OR - ITY - MENT - NESS - ISM

Imagination - painter - actor - basement - sadness-

tourism.

Noun classesProper: Are the name of specific people, places, or occasions, and they always begin with a capital letter.

You can classify them just in gender (male, female, no gender)

Common: is a noun referring to a person, place, or thing in a general sense— usually you should write it with a capital letter only when it begins a sentence.

You can classify them in number (plural, singular), gender (male, female, no gender), material (abstract, concrete), countable, uncountable.

Collective nouns: Is an special class, name groups, (things) composed of members (usually people)

-Army -Council -Minority

-Audience -Department -Navy-Board -Faculty -Public-Cabinet -Family -School-Class -Firm -Team-Group -Troupe -Company

-Jury -Senate -Corporation

-Majority -Society -School of fish

Compound nouns: Is a noun that is made up of two or more words. Most compound nouns are formed by nouns modified by other nouns or adjectives.

Example: The words TOOTH and PASTE are each nouns in their own right, but if you join them together they form a new word “TOOTHPASTE”.

Sometimes they are joined using a hyphen.Example:Check-in.

Case: Nouns have two cases, common and genitive case. The common case is the one that is used ordinarily (ex: phone-salt), the genitive case indicates the noun is dependent on the noun that follows.

Example:Jane’s reaction.The student’s essays.

Verbal Nouns: They are formed from verbs. They are a type of common noun.

Example:

I love swimming verb verbal noun

Lateral thinking is required to solve this problem. verbal noun verb

Example of classification

After the long exam, the class start their research papers on famous mathematicians.

Exam: (N) common, singular, countable, concrete, no gender, CC.

Class: (N) common, singular, countable, concrete, no gender, CC, collective.

Papers: (N) common, plural, countable, concrete, no gender, CC.

Mathematicians: (N) common, plural, countable, concrete, no gender, CC.