NounsAndrés Rodríguez, Christian Campos, Valeria Santelmo,

Nicolás Novikow, Irune Capri, Claudia Castro.

Definition

A noun is a word that name a person, place, or thing.

Common & Proper

Common nouns are your generic nouns.

Proper nouns name specific things and begin with a capital letter.

Concrete & Abstract

Concrete nouns are perceivable by the senses.

Abstract nouns are not tangible.

Countable

They are things we can count.

Dog, cat, animal, man, person, bottle, dollar, cup, table, chair

"People" is countable. "People" is the plural of "person". We can count people:

There is one person here.There are three people here

Countable nouns can be singular or plural:

● My dog is playing.

● My dogs are hungry.

Indefinite articles a/an:

● A dog is an animal.

When it is singular, we must use a word like a/the/my/this with it:

● I want an orange.

It can be used also :some, many, any and few

Uncountable nouns are substances, concepts, others, that we cannot divide into separate elements.

music, art, love, happiness

advice, information, news

furniture, luggage

UncountableWe use a singular verb

● This news is very important.

We can use some, any, a little and much:

● I've got some money.

● Have you got any rice?

● I've got a little money.

● I haven't got much rice.

Singular & Plural Form

Most nouns form the plural by adding “s”

A noun ending in “s, x, z, ch” the plural by adding “es"

A noun that ends in “y” the plural by adding “ies”

Regular Nouns:

Singular & Plural Form

Irregular Nouns: There are some irregular formations for nouns plurals

Possessive form

- add ' to plural noun- add ' + s to singular noun

“OF”

one ball more than one ball

one boy the boy’s ball the boy’s balls

more than one boy the boys’ ball the boys’ balls

(irregular plural to)

Compound & Collective

Claudia