nouns

© 2011 wheresjenny.com

NOUNSNouns are names of Person-Marc, Lucy, Helen etc.

Place- Lyon, Tunisia, London-etc

Some class or category- cat, dog, king, prince

Things- bottle, paper, book etc

Nouns and compound nouns


TYPES OF NOUNS WITH EXAMPLES

1. Proper noun- specific names: Lucy, George, France, Lyon etc. NOTE: They are always written in capital letters.

2. Common noun: boy, book, shop, house etc. ( written in capital only if they are in the beginning of the sentences). Example: Houses are of many types.

3. Collective noun: A word used to represent a group of people or thing. Example: flock, jury, choir, team etc.

4. Abstract noun: A word which names something that you cannot see, touch, smell or taste. Example: childhood, joy, pleasure etc.5. Uncountable nouns: Things which cannot be counted Example: Food, music etc.

Types of nouns


COMPOUND NOUNS

Words can be combined to form compound nouns.

They normally have two parts. Example: boy + friend= boyfriend. police + man= policeman.

Noun can be compounded with different parts of speech and thus called as compound nouns.

Compound nouns


The two parts may be written in many

ways

1. As one word: policeman, boyfriend

2. As two words joined with hyphen: dining-table

3. As two separate words: fish tank

NOTE: There are no clear rules


Noun can be compounded with different parts of speech and thus called as compound noun

Examples

Noun + noun : bedroom, motor cycle, water tankEx: I have a red motor cycle.

Noun + verb : rain +fall, hair +cut. Ex: There’s heavy rainfall today

Verb + noun: washing machine , swimming pool

Ex: I wash my clothes in washing machine.

Note: There are two forms N+V and V+N

Nouns and parts of speech


Noun + adverb: hanger-on, passer-by.

Ex: Passers-by are not allowed to enter in this gate.

Adverb + noun: onlooker, bystander

Ex: He looks like and innocent bystander.


Compound words are also formed with any two different parts of speech other than noun and works as a noun in the sentence

Some examples with Verb + adverb= lookout, take-off, drawbackEx: He is very lazy and that is his drawback.

Adverb+ verb: out put, over throwUsed in the sentences as nounEx: Manufacturing output was down by 1.6% last year.


Adjective + noun : green house, soft ware.

Ex: This software is very useful in capturing the data.

Adjective + verb : dry cleaning, public speaking Ex: Good communication is important for public speaking (used as noun in the sentences)

NOTE: We have adjective + noun but not noun+ adjective.

We have adjective pairing with verb

Adj with verbs


1. A place where you can grow vegetables and flowers = a ____________

2. In your house, there is a where you can sleep ___________.

3. My clothes are dirty. I put them into the ___________.

4. Sarah went to the hairdresser. She's got a very nice __________.

5. I need a ___________ to use a car. 6. My printer doesn't work any longer. The

__________ is empty. 7. The weather is very warm. Let's go to the

___________ !

Exercise: Choose and fill in the compound nouns

Driving license, haircut, greenhouse, washing machine, printer cartridge, swimming pool

Exercise


Exercise:2:-Combine the words in the bracket to form compound nouns

1. The boss has bought (save/time) ___________ machine tool.

2. In winter my (face/ north) _________________ bed room is very cold.

3. The (seat/back) _______ passenger must fasten his seat belt.

4. This (straw-berry/wild) __________ice-cream was a delicious desert.

5. The (self/employed) workers complain about paying heavy taxes.

Exercise 2


Verbs ( action words) with ‘ing’ are called gerunds.

Gerunds also combine with noun and become a noun-gerund combination

Example : Sea ( noun) + diving ( verb) = sea diving

.Sea diving is a good adventure.

I like horse riding

Noun +gerund


Exercise nouns and gerund

Choose the compound nouns given below and match the pictures.

Financial planning

Movie making

Horse riding

Sea diving

Pot making

nouns

Documents

noun verb

noun adverb

adverb noun

abstract noun

pairing of noun

common noun

collective noun

proper noun specific