1. NOUN
A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, and abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn. The highlighted words in the following sentences are all nouns:
Example:
- Late last year our neighbours bought a goat.
- Portia White was an opera singer.
- The bus inspector looked at all the passengers' passes.
- According to Plutarch, the library at Alexandria was destroyed in 48 B.C.
- Philosophy is of little comfort to the starving.
2 . SINGULAR NOUN
The singular form is used when considering the noun as a single item (count) or entity (non-count).
Example: - The dog bit the postman
- I go to Jakarta by airplane
3. PLURAL NOUN
The plural form is used when considering more than one of the same item. Non-count nouns do not have a plural form.
Example: - People is a plurality of human beings or other beings possessing enough qualities constituting personhood
- There are two tables in the new class room4. COUNTABLE NOUN
A countable noun (or count noun) is a noun with both a singular and a plural form, and it names anything (or anyone) that you can count. You can make a countable noun plural and attach it to a plural verb in a sentence. Countable nouns are the opposite of non-countable nouns and collective nouns.
In each of the following sentences, the highlighted words are countable nouns:
Example:
- We painted the table red and the chairs blue.
- Since he inherited his aunt's library, Jerome spends every weekend indexing his books.
- Miriam found six silver dollars in the toe of a sock.
- The oak tree lost three branches in the hurricane.
- Over the course of twenty-seven years, Martha Ballad delivered just over eight hundred babies.
5. UNCOUNTABLE NOUN
A non-countable noun (or mass noun) is a noun which does not have a plural form, and which refers to something that you could (or would) not usually count. A non-countable noun always takes a singular verb in a sentence. Non-countable nouns are similar to collective nouns, and are the opposite of countable nouns.
The highlighted words in the following sentences are non-countable nouns:
Example:
- Andrian discovered oxygen.
- I have a lot of experiences.
6. COMMON / GENERAL NOUNS
A common noun 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. A common noun is the opposite of a proper noun.
Example:
- According to the sign, the nearest town is 60 miles away.
- All the gardens in the neighbourhood were invaded by beetles this summer.
7. PROPER / SPECIFIC NOUNS
You always write a proper noun with a capital letter, since the noun represents the name of a specific person, place, or thing. The names of days of the week, months, historical documents, institutions, organisations, religions, their holy texts and their adherents are proper nouns. A proper noun is the opposite of a common noun
Example:
- Many people dread Monday mornings
- Los Angeles is in the west of the U.S.A
8. POSSESIVE PRONOUNS
We use possessive pronouns to refer to a specific person/people or thing/things (the "antecedent") belonging to a person/people (and sometimes belonging to an animal/animals or thing/things).
We use possessive pronouns depending on:
- number: singular (eg: mine) or plural (eg: ours)
- person: 1st person (eg: mine), 2nd person (eg: yours) or 3rd person (eg: his)
- gender: male (his), female (hers)
- be subject or object
- refer to a singular or plural antecedent
number | person | gender (of "owner") | possessive pronouns |
singular | 1st | male/female | mine |
2nd | male/female | yours | |
3rd | male | his | |
female | hers | ||
plural | 1st | male/female | ours |
2nd | male/female | yours | |
3rd | male/female/neuter | theirs |
Example:
- This new car is mine
- The type of Adi's car is Ferrari Enzo.
References:
http://www.eslgold.com/grammar/singular_plural.html http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/nouns.html http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/pronouns-possessive.htm |
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