Pronunciation and Nouns
AIM:
To study and learn nouns.
NOUN:
A noun is the name of a person, place or thing. A thing includes a quality (fear), a material (gold), a collection (herd, army), a state (adherence) and an action
(cheat, mock, movement)
A noun is often called a noun phrase. A noun phrase can be single –word noun for eg: Teachers love their students. (Noun phrase: teacher).But a noun phrase is
usually longer than a single word because it consists of an adjective or a determine plus a noun for e.g.: A good teacher loves his student. (Noun phrase: a
good teacher)
Nouns can be classified into five kinds:
- Proper nouns
- Common nouns
- Collective nouns
- Material nouns
- Abstract nouns
1) PROPER NOUN:
A proper noun is the name of a particles or person or thing i.e., name used for an individual person or place, river or mountain etc., for e.g. Ram, Rahul, India, Everest
2) COMMON NOUN:
A common noun refers to any and every person or thing of the same kind or class not to a particular person or thing for e.g.: cow, dog, girl
3) COLLECTIVE NOUN:
A collective noun is the name of a collective group of people or things of the same kind for e.g.: iron, copper, milk, sugar.
4) ABSTRACT NOUN:
An abstract noun is the name of a quality, state or concept. For e.g.: beauty, sweetness, love, childhood
NOUNS: COUNTABILITY
From the viewpoint of countability nouns are of two types:
1) Countable noun
2) Uncountable noun
- COUNTABLE NOUN:
Nouns that can be counted are called countable nouns. For e.g.: a book, an egg, generally a noun used in answer to the question how many? Is a counted noun.
a) How many movies did you watch?
I watched two movies - UNCOUNTABLE NOUN:
Nouns that cannot be counted are called uncountable nouns. For e.g.: milk, water, ink. A noun used in answer to the question, how much? Is an
uncountable noun.
When we want to refer to the quantity of these items we use values of measurement which are countable.
Q: How much sugar do you need?
We need a kg of sugar.
Noun gender:
Gender is of four kinds
1) Masculine (denotes male) eg: boy, man, brother
2) Feminine (denotes female) eg: girl, women, sister
3) Common (denotes both male and female) eg: student, doctor , teacher
4) Neuter (denotes neither male nor female) eg: gold, rice
MASCULINE AND FEMININE FORMS
The feminine of nouns is formed in the ways
1) By adding ess to the masculine form
2) By adding she/girl to the masculine form
1) By adding ess to the masculine form
Actor actresss
Baron baroness
Host hostess
2) By adding she/girl /women
He-goat she-goat
Boy-friend girl-friend
Student woman student
But in many cases the feminine form is not delivered from the masculine form for e.g.:
Gender- goose
Boar- sow
Boy- girl
Cock- hen
Nephew-niece
Common /dual gender:
1) Noun denoting profession
Most of the nouns denoting professional/occupation are in the common
gender
Baby
Look
Artiste
Novelist
Minister
Typist
EXERCISE FOR STUDENTS
- Name any ten nouns around you and classify them accordingly
Boy, Girl, Cow, Dog, Remi, Nanthini, Sonia, Rani, Rahul, Ravi etc. - Identify the common and proper noun from the following
a) Ashoka was a great king.
b) New Delhi is the capital of India.
c) Sita is my sister.
d) Kolkata is a big city.
e) Hari is a good boy.
Common noun
Boy, king, sister, city
Proper noun
Asoka, New Delhi, Sita, Kolkata, Hari, India
- Which of the following is a collective noun?
Crowd, Mob, India, Sheep, Herd, Fleet, Parliament
Collective nouns:
Crowd, Parliament, Herd
- Identify and circle the each noun below
Happy, Pillow, Goat, Make, Boy, Desk, Box, Up, Fast, Lamp, Kite, Song, Fast, Song,
Dance, Ring etc - Identify the nouns in the following sentences:
The plane landed safely at the airport.
The girl dropped the glass on the table.
My cat likes to play with string and yarn.
I saw my teacher at the store.
NOUNS: plane, airport, girl, glass, table, cat, yarn, teacher, store.
- Collective noun:
Circle the collective nouns in the following sentences
1) Army of shouldets walked across the land.
2) A hive of bees attack a boy.
3) A sloth of beers locked in the river for fish.
4) A flock of birds flow over my house.
5) I brought a leaf of the bread at the market.
REPORT:
Thus we can study and learn nouns.
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