What is a noun? How many categories of nouns are there?

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What is a noun?

How many categories of nouns are there?

What are the features of Countable Nouns?

What are the features of Uncountable Nouns?

TRUE or FALSE? Proper Nouns are the names of people, things, animals, etc. Right answer: People’s first or family names, place names & all nouns starting with a capital first letter e.g. days, months, etc [MAINLY (U)]

TRUE or FALSE? The countable, singular nouns that involve groups of people/ things are called Common. Right answer: Common Nouns are names for people, things, animals, etc [(C)]

What are Abstract Nouns?

What are Material Nouns?

An what are Collective Nouns?

TRUE or FALSE? Material and Abstract nouns can be used as Common and then they are fully countable. e.g. trust, work, paper, wood, company, iron, coffee, toast, chicken (& other animals)

TRUE or FALSE? Common nouns for people are always of common gender. Right answer: teacher, professor, doctor, lawyer, nurse are examples of common- gender nouns.

What are the Feminine-gender equivalents of these nouns?

What are some typical Collective nouns?

And how are Collective nouns used?

Which are the Nouns without Plural?

TRUE or FALSE? Nouns without Plural are Uncountable.

TRUE or FALSE? Nouns without Plural can be counted if need be. HOW ?

TRUE or FALSE? Nouns without Plural can also be used as Countable with a different meaning. e.g. litter, waste, gossip, holiday, business, score

Which are the Nouns without Singular?

TRUE or FALSE? Nouns without Singular are Countable. Right answer: they can be counted if need be, using the word ‘pair’.

TRUE or FALSE? Nouns without Singular can also be used as Countable with a different meaning. e.g. cloths, a glass, a pool, arm, a scale, etc

What is the Case of a Noun?

TRUE or FALSE? All the cases in English have endings. Right answer: only the Possessive of animate nouns does.

TRUE or FALSE? Inanimate nouns have the same Possessive Case as animate ones. Right answer: they form their possessive with ‘of’.

TRUE or FALSE? We add an -s at the end of a singular noun to form its Plural Number.

What is special about nouns like ‘means’, ‘series’, ‘species’, etc?

What is special about nouns like ‘measles’, ‘politics’, ‘darts’, etc?

What is special about nouns like ‘cattle’, ‘police’, ‘the media’, etc?

What is special about nouns like ‘odds’, ‘findings’, ‘minutes’, etc?

When do we have to use -es, -ies, -ves to form the Plural of nouns?

What is the Plural Form of the following nouns?

What is the Plural Form of the following foreign endings?

How is the Possessive Case of animate nouns formed?

How is the Possessive Case of irregular plural nouns formed?

What do we do when 2 possessors have only 1 possession?

What do we do when 2 possessors have one possession each?

Can the ʹ s Possessive be used with inanimate nouns?

A Compound Noun is … a plural uncountable one a plural countable one a singular countable one a singular noun involving a group of people, things, etc one that consists of two or more words

How are Compound Nouns formed?

TRUE or FALSE? Compound Nouns are always written as one word. Right answer: Sometimes. At other times they can be written with a hyphen or as two separate words.

What may Compound Nouns show?

How can we turn Uncountable Nouns into Countable ones?