UNIT 1

PARTS OF SPEECH
LECTURER : NUR ZAIMAH JAMIL
HOW MANY PARTS OF SPEECH?
WHAT IS PARTS OF SPEECH?
WHAT IS NOUNS?
• A noun is a name given to a person, animal, a thing, a place, an idea, an
activity, a concept or a feeling.

• There are five types of nouns.

 FIVE TYPES OF NOUNS
TYPES OF NOUNS DEFINITION EXAMPLES
Common Nouns Names which are commons to all Girls, sons, cats, dogs.
persons or things of the same kind of
class.
Proper Nouns Names of particular people, animals, Nabila, Dungun
places or things.
Abstract Nouns Something we cannot see or touch but Love, anger, happiness, joy
you can feel or think of.
Collective Nouns Groups of things that are not regarded a bunch of keys, a school of
as one. They can be persons, things, fishes
places activites or concepts.
Compound Nouns Nouns are formed by combining two Volley + ball = volleyball
or more words. They can be countable Butter + fly = butterfly
or uncountable.
EXERCISE 1: UNDERLINE AND IDENTIFY THE
TYPES OF NOUNS IN THE SENTENCES.
1. The children are playing see saw.
2. Beauty without brains are worthless.
3. I saw a bunch of keys on the table.
4. Shina just bought the latest Mini Cooper.
5. Vishnu is singing a lullaby to her baby sister.
6. Ah wong plans to go to Italy but he cancels it last minutes.
7. The students are learning online during the MCO period.
• 8. Malaysia is known as a country with the best healthcare system to fight
Covid-19 pandemic.

• 9. Seremban, Putrajaya and Johor Bahru are listed as the redzone area.

• 10. Michelle got free data from Celcom during the MCO period.

(submit your answer in GC = google classroom)

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

SINGULAR

COUNTABLE NOUNS

PLURAL
COMMON NOUNS

EXAMPLES :
UNCOUNTABLE WATER
NOUNS SAND
AIR
PLURAL FORMS OF COUNTABLE NOUNS
Rules Singular Nouns Plural Nouns
Adding ‘s’ to most singular nouns cat cats
Adding ‘es’ to nouns end with : Witch Witches
ch,sh,s,x,o. Duo Duos
But some nouns ending with o Box Boxes
add ‘ s’ only dish Dishes
Nouns ending with ‘y’ change to baby Babies
ies
Change nouns end with f or fe to wolf Wolves
‘ves’
Change vowels of singular nouns man Men
Add ‘en’ to few nouns with plural Child Children
Some nouns do not change in sheep sheep
singular and plural form
PLURAL FORMS OF COUNTABLE NOUNS
Rules Singular Nouns Plural Nouns
Some nouns have green and latin bacterium bacteria
ending
Some nouns are used only on Trousers Trousers
plural forms Scissors Scissors
Shorts Shorts

Some nouns end with ‘s’ but it is News

singular politics
UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS: CANNOT BE COUNT BUT WRITTEN IN
SINGULAR FORMS
Categories Examples
Abstract nouns Calm ego idea
Activities Chatting reading swimming
Fields of study Physics, mathematics
Foods Beef fish
Gases / Liquids Water oxygen
Materials Gold leather
Particles Dirt pepper salt sugar
EXERCISE 2 : FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE CORRECT PLURAL FORMS OF NOUNS:

1. I found many KPJUC ______(student) at the hostel.

2. Lucy has four new _____(puppy).
3. The Sultan has two ___(prince) and three ( princess).
4. There are many (sheep) in UPM.
5. My brother loves to watch (cartoon) such as Rugrats, Bleach and Lava.
6. Two of his (brother in law) are engineers.
7. My (foot) are killing me.
8. There are many beautiful (beach) in Mauritius.
• 9. There are several (criterion) for my future husband.
• 10. I wrote many journal (article).
POSSESSIVE NOUNS
• Used to show possession.
• The apostrophe (‘) is added to noun to show ownership.
RULES FOR FORMING POSSESSIVE NOUNS
Rules Examples Descriptions
For singular and plural nouns that Girl’s bracelet Bracelet belongs to the girl.
do not end with “s”, we added Zaimah’s wallet Wallet belong to zaimah
“s”. Children’s toys Toys belong to the children.
For plural nouns that end with ‘s’ Students’ bags Bags belong to the students
we add (‘) after the s (more than one student).
Teachers’ offices
When noun end with s, the Boss’s office Office belongs to the boss.
possessive is written by adding s. Hostess’s novels Novels that belong to the hostess.

For name :
James’s car
EXERCISE 3 : PUT (‘S) OR (S’) IN THE
FOLLOWING SENTENCES.
1. My uncle wife is staying in Meru.
2. The boutique only sells ladies shoes.
3. The legs chair are crooked.
4. The volleyball players shoes are covered with dirt.
5. On your father birthday, we need to set him a special dinner.
6. The hostel window is broken.
7. I saw many women shoes at Padini.