CHART TO ANALYSE NOUNS

NOUNS LADY SHOAL HART RAIN LIVES SHEEP PEOPLE

PROPER
COMMON
-INDIVIDUAL X
- COLLECTIVE
- CONCRETE X
-ABSTRACT
X
- COUNTABLE
-UNCOUNTABLE
NUMBER
Variable:
X (ies)
a) Regular:
b) Irregular:
-Voicing
- Mutation
- en plural
- zero plural
- foreign plural

Invariable:
a) Singular:
-ending in ‘s’
-adjectives with
nominal function

b) Plural:
-pluralia tantum
-unmarked
-adjectives with
nominal function

GENDER
Animate: X
a) Personal: X
-female X
-male
-dual

b) Non- personal

Inanimate:

CASE X
Common:
Genitive:
-singular
-plural
-singular ending in ‘s’
-fixed expressions
- ‘of’ genitive
- double genitive

a) Look at the chart and write a cross (X ) where it is appropriate

b) Add these words to the analysis:

- analyses

- mumps

- the unknown

- the young

- furniture

- herb

- geese

- series

- engineer

- widower

- friends’

- phenomena

- the misfortunes of life

- news