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NOUNS
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-describe and analyze meaning, and use of various noun structure.

 NOUNS
-are labels that are given to the people, places and things
about which human beings communicate.

- are the name of a person , place, or thing.

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NOUN
- arelabels that are given to the people, places and
things about which human beings communicate.

- is
the name of a person, place or thing, idea, action,
or anything else that can be named.

PERSON: woman, cousin, pilot, Mr. Lopez

PLACE: university, Main Street, desert, Ohio

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NOUN
THING:

Visible things: shark, refrigerator, wheat

Ideas: abolition, evolution

Actions: dispute, construction , communication

Conditions: fear, loneliness, ownership

Qualities: integrity, assurance, vulgarity

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 PROPERTIES OF NOUNS
CASE GENDER NUMBER PERSON

Person relates to
A noun’s case In English, most nouns nouns are either whether an individual is
signals its dont have genders. The singular or plural. speaking ( first-person-
relationship to exceptions are those Mass nouns can e.g. “ We the people” ,
other elements in that denote specifically only be singular. spoken to ( second
the sentence. male or female people person- e.g “ You are
or animals- for people”), or spoken of
example, queen, ( third-person- e.g. -
boyfriend, rooster etc. Those people”). This
property doesnt change
the form of the noun.
 CASES OF NOUNS
The Nominative Case- the noun which is the subject of the sentence

ex. The author ( subject) has published another novel.

The Vocative Case- Vocative means “ calling” ; hence, this is the “ calling case. It refers to the person or
thing spoken to.

ex. Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears.

The Accusative or Objective Case- A noun which is the object or at the receiving end of the action of a
verb or preposition is said to be in accusative or objective case.

ex. The court served the motion.

 CASES OF NOUNS
The Dative Case- This is the case of recipient or the person or thing to whom something is given or for whom something
is done.

ex. I gave Juan a book.

The Genetive or Possessive Case- The nouns in the genetive case denote the idea of belonging to or being in the
possession of somebody or something. The inflected form of a noun that indicates possession or ownership of something
is called “ the possessive” and shows ownership.

ex. The train’s destination.

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 GENDER OF NOUNS

Male Female Common

A noun that refers to a A female is said to be Some noun refer to
male is said to be of the feminine both male and female.
masculine gender. gender.
- indeterminate
ex. man, boy, brother, ex. woman, girl, sister, ( sibling, child)
father, nephew mother, niece - Neuter ( pencil,
book, tree)
NUMBER OF NOUNS
SINGULAR PLURAL

• it refers to the count of only one of • it refers to the count of more than
a noun or pronoun. one of a noun.

ex. • ex.

pen, table, aunt, father, goose etc • pens, tables, aunts, fathers, geese.
etc.,

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NUMBER OF NOUNS
RULES
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 PERSON OF NOUNS
Person is that property of a noun or a pronoun which distinguishes the speaker, the person
spoken to, and the person or object spoken of.

Speaking Spoken to Spoken of

The first person denotes
the speaker.
examples:
1. “I, John, was in the
isle that is called Patmos.”
The second person denotes
the person addressed.
examples:
1. “James, be more careful.”
2. “Fellow-citizens, the
crisis demands the utmost
vigilance.”
The third person denotes the
person or object spoken of.
examples:
1. “Milton was a poet.”
2. “Rome was an ocean of
flame.”
3. “I am reading Tennyson’s
Poems.”
 INFLECTION OF NOUNS

Inflection refers to a process of word formation in which items are added to the base form of a word to
express grammatical meanings. The word "inflection" comes from the Latin inflectere, meaning "to bend."

English noun inflections alter the noun to convey a more specific meaning and give more information
about that noun. Noun inflections include additional or altered letters to convey a plural, and adding
apostrophes to indicate possession.

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INFLECTION OF NOUNS
Inflection Rules
English words follow different rules for inflection based on their part of speech and grammatical category.
The most common rules are listed below.

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