Name : Jusy Permata

Npm : A1B019106
Lecturer : Wisma Yunita

SUMMARY NOUNS
E. Supplementary Material for Nouns
1. Definition of Nouns
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.
a) My life is so beatiful.
b) She is not in home.
c) That is a good idea.
d) That is a new hospital.
e) My novel is in this room.
A noun can function in a sentence as asubject, a direct object, an indirect object, a
subject complement, an object complement, an appositive, an adjective or an
adverb.
2. Functions of Nouns
Nouns can function in a sentence as the following :
a. Nouns as Subject
Example : The teacher is teaching his students.
The teacher is the subject of the first sentence. A noun that represents the name
of a person or a spesific place is a proper noun.
b. Noun as Direct Object
Example : Toni clean the room.
Room is the direct object of the verb clean.
c. Noun as Indirect Object
Example : I invited him to eat at home.
Him is the inderect object.
d. Noun as Object of a Preposition
Example : He moved the chair to the warehouse.
The preposition is to, and the object of that prepesition is the noun warehouse.
e. Predicate Noun
Example : Mr. Doni is a singer.
The nouns that follows an intransitive verb and completes the predicate may also
be called a predicate noun or predicate nominative.
 f. Appositive Noun
Example : My sister, Hesly come to town to attend a friends wedding.
The sentence above, my sister is the subject of the sentence and Hesly is the
appositive. Appositive means near.
g. Noun as Possessive Modifer
Example :

h. Noun Functioning as an Adjective

Example : The water machine is broken.
The word water is a noun, but inthis application it functions as an adverb.

3. Types of Nouns
Capitalize some nouns, such as “Canada” or “Louise” and do not capitalize
others, such as “badger” or “Tree” (unless they appear at the beginning of a
sentence) in fact, grammarians have developed a whole series of noun types,
including in proper noun, the common noun, the concrete naoun, the abstract noun,
the countable noun (also called the count noun), the non-countable noun (also called
the mass noun), and the collective noun.
a. Proper Nouns
Always write to proper noun with a capital letter, since the noun represents
the name of a specific person, place, or thing. A proper noun is the opposite of a
common noun. In each of the following sentences, the proper noun are
highlighited :
Example :
1) Elisabeth Renata Tambubolon was born in Hospital of Mutiara Bunda.
2) Mrs. Susi has bought the egg from the Sinar Super Market.
3) Hasan and Husin my cousins.
4) Celia is dentist.
b. Common Nouns
A common noun is a noun reffering to a person, place, or thing in a general
sense – usually, you should write it with a capital letter only when it begin a
sentence. A common noun is the opposite of a proper noun. In each of the
following sentence, the common nouns are highlighted :
Example :
1) I like collection the flowers in my little garden.
2) Most of birds in the world
3) We went to the garden two days ago.
4) She buys a melon an an orange.
5) Many sailor sleepy on this morning.
c. Concrete Nouns
 A concrete noun is a noun which names anything (or anyone) that you can
perceive through your physical senses: touch, taste, hearing, or smell. A concrete
noun is the opposite of a abstract noun.
The highlighted words in the following sentence are all concret nouns :
Example :
1) Wahyu broke my favorite bag.
2) He is going to have fish to dinner.
3) My big brother decided to join the navy after gradution.
4)
5)
d. Abstract Nouns
An abstract noun an is a which name anything which you can’t perceive
trought your five phsical senses, and is the opposit eof a concrete noun. The
highlighted words in the following sentences are all abstract nouns.
Example :
1) How many times that company faced bankruptcy?
2) Demian Aditya is a magician. He performed of tv show America’s got talent.
3) My aunt is working as librarian at the ministry of maritime affairds and
fisheries.
4) She is an indonesian who lives in London.
5) Babies have a lot a coriusity.
e. Countable Nouns
A countable nouns (or count noun) is a nounwith both asingular and a plural
form, and it names anything (or anyone) that you cannot. You can make a
countable noun can be made plural and attach it to a plural verb in a sentence.
Countable naouns are teh opposite of non-countable nouns and collective nouns.
In each of the following sentences.
The highlighted words are countable nouns :
Example :
1) I have a book.
2) Do you like this photos?
3) I’ve a got problem with the car.
4) Sabrina have a cheese sandwich and a banana for breakfast.
5) I have two brothers, Habibie and Fauzan
f. Non-Countable Nouns
A non-countable nouns (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 take a singular verb in sentence. Non-countable
nouns are similiar to collectice nouns, and are the opposite odf countable nouns.
The highlighted words in the following sentences are non-countable nouns :
Example :
 1) I always drink.
2) Milk is very good for out health.
3) Mother buys some sugar in the market.
4) Many doesn’t have much time.
g. Collective Nouns
A collective nouns s a noun naming a grup of things, animals, or persons. You
could count the individual members of the group, but you usually think of the
group as a whole is generally as one unit. You need to be able to recognize
collecive nouns in order to maintain subject-verb agreement.
Example :
1) The hords of wolfs is seen on the road
The collective noun “wolfs” takes the singular verb “seen”.
2) The motorcycle gangs always drive at night.
The collective noun “gengs” takes the singular verb “drive”
4. Noun Gender
Nouns have four genders :
a) Masculine Gender = the masculine gender is used for all males.
Example : Bay, Man.
b) Feminine Gender = The feminine gender used for alll females.
Example : Girl, Woman.
c) Common Gender = the common gender is used where the noun can be both male
and female.
Example : Cousin, Friend, Person, Child, Student.
d) Gender = the gender is used for things which have no life or sex.
Example : Table, Chair.
5. Forming Nouns
Nouns can be formed from news, verbs and adjectives, they are formed by
adding certain letters to them.
Some example below :

Nouns Verb Adjective Nouns