NOUN and PRONOUN

NOUN

The students are able to

 Identify Noun in the Sentence
 Differentiate the use of Countable and Uncountable Nouns
 Use Irregular Plural Nouns and Regular Plural Nouns
What is Noun?

 Nouns are naming words.

 They name people, places and objects.
 They can also name ideas, emotions, qualities and activities.
 Here are some examples of nouns:
 Peter, Elizabeth, driver, sister, friend.
 Bristol, Severn, Brazil, pen, dog, money.
 Love, beauty, industry, nature, greed, pain.
Exercise 1

1. Tina Loves Listening to the Radio

2. They started buiding the bridge last month
3. Jakarta is the capital and the biggest city in Indonesia
4. Children have to stay in the room
5. East Java produces the best rice in the country.
6. Kalimantan is a very big island
Types of Noun

 All nouns can be divided into common and proper nouns.

 Common nouns can then be divided into countable and uncountable nouns.
 Both countable and uncountable nouns can then be further divided into
concrete and abstract nouns.
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proper
abstract

nouns
countable

concrete

common
abstract
uncountable

concrete
Proper nouns
 Proper nouns start with capital letters.
 They are the names of people, places, times, organisations etc.
 They refer to unique individuals.
 Most are not found in the dictionary.
 They often occur in pairs or groups.
 Here are some examples.
 The Jam
Tony Blair
Oxfam
Coronation Street
Carly

Christmas

Keynsham John
President Bush

Sony Thames

China Coca Cola

Bridget Jones
Portugal
The Ford Motor Company
King Henry
Macbeth
Saturn
Common nouns
 All nouns which are not proper nouns are common nouns.
 A few examples: cup, art, paper, work, frog, bicycle, atom, family,
mind.
 Common nouns are either countable or uncountable.
Countable Noun

 Countable noun is noun that can be count.

 It can be categorized into singular and plural noun
 For Example :
book, chair, tomato, car, daughter
Uncountable Noun

 It can not be counted

 For Example : Wish, Tea, Hair, Sand, Love, Sugar.
 The more we learn about dolphins, the more we
realize that they are better organized and their society
is more complex than people previously imagined.
They look after other dolphins when they are ill, care
for pregnant mothers and protect the weakest in the
community, as we do.
some scientists have suggested that dolphins have a
language but it is much more probable that they
communicate with each other without needing
“words”. They have an echo-location system which is
similar to a bat’s system and much more sensitive than
our hearing, so the most important task of a dolphin’s
brain is to transmit and receive sound.
Plural Countable Nouns

 In general, to make plural countable nouns is by adding s on the nouns

 Example : Car – Cars, Step – Steps
 We can also make a plural countable nouns by adding –es to the nouns ending
with –sh, -ch, -ss, -x.
 When the noun ended with consonant +y, we change “y” into “I” then added
“-es”.
 When the noun ended –fe or –f, we change into –ves (except beliefs, chiefs,
roofs, cuffs)
 Plural noun ended with o sometimes change iti –oes or es.