what is a noun? how many categories of nouns are there?
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What is a noun?
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How many categories of nouns are there?
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What are the features of Countable Nouns?
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What are the features of Uncountable Nouns?
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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)]
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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)]
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What are Abstract Nouns?
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What are Material Nouns?
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An what are Collective Nouns?
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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)
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Common nouns for people are always of common gender.
Right answer: teacher, professor, doctor, lawyer, nurse are examples of common-gender nouns.
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What are the Feminine-gender equivalents of these nouns?
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What are some typical Collective nouns?
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And how are Collective nouns used?
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Which are the Nouns without Plural?
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Nouns without Plural are Uncountable.
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Nouns without Plural can be counted if need be.
HOW?
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Nouns without Plural can also be used as Countable with a different meaning.
e.g. litter, waste, gossip, holiday, business, score
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Which are the Nouns without Singular?
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Nouns without Singular are Countable.
Right answer: they can be counted if need be, using the word ‘pair’.
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Nouns without Singular can also be used as Countable with a different meaning.
e.g. cloths, a glass, a pool, arm, a scale, etc
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What is the Case of a Noun?
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All the cases in English have endings.
Right answer: only the Possessive of animate nouns does.
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Inanimate nouns have the same Possessive Case as animate ones.
Right answer: they form their possessive with ‘of’.
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We add an -s at the end of a singular noun to form its Plural Number.
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What is special about nouns like ‘means’, ‘series’, ‘species’, etc?
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What is special about nouns like ‘measles’, ‘politics’, ‘darts’, etc?
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What is special about nouns like ‘cattle’, ‘police’, ‘the media’, etc?
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What is special about nouns like ‘odds’, ‘findings’, ‘minutes’, etc?
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When do we have to use -es, -ies, -ves to form the Plural of nouns?
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What is the Plural Form of the following nouns?
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What is the Plural Form of the following nouns?
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What is the Plural Form of the following foreign endings?
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How is the Possessive Case of animate nouns formed?
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How is the Possessive Case of irregular plural nouns formed?
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What do we do when 2 possessors have only 1 possession?
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What do we do when 2 possessors have one possession each?
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Can the ʹs Possessive be used with inanimate nouns?
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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
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How are Compound Nouns formed?
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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.
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What may Compound Nouns show?
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How can we turn Uncountable Nouns into Countable ones?