Sabtu, 24 September 2011

The Second Meeting Of The Task Blog (Noun)

    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.
A noun can function in a sentence as a subject, a direct object, an indirect object, a subject complement, an object complement, an appositive, an adjective or an adverb.



   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 room


   4. 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)
Below are the possessive pronouns, followed by some example sentences. Notice that each possessive pronoun can:
  • 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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