Nouns

Lesson No 01. B

Recognition 

Of the part of speech the most commonly used is the nouns, A noun is the term we use to identify a thing a person or a quality

On completion of this lesson you will be able to

1.  Identify a noun form other parts of speech
2.  Identify different type of nouns
3.  Find the different form of the nouns
4.  How to use nouns correctly in a sentence 

we are going study the lesson step by step

Step ǐ

Type of nouns

Nouns can identify under follows
a thing /a place/ a Person/ a Quality

Exercise 01

Here is list of nouns and write them under the above categories 

Colombo, Jon, Management, Sydney, Network, Combo, Honesty, Sue, Completion, Maximum, Film, Adam's peak

Nouns categorized methods

• Nouns can categorized as follow 

1. Common nouns
2. Abstract nouns
3. Proper nouns
4. Collective nouns

See the following nouns

Common	Proper	Abstract	Collective
Letter Post E Mail Share Hour Time	Shani Jon Michel Google Yahoo	Creative Transaction Control Competition Check Write Solution	List of documents File of documents Board of directors Group of Google

• Again we can identify two categories of nouns from a grammatical point of view. The are countable nouns and uncountable nouns 

How you can identify countable nouns in a sentence

1. They have singular and plural forms
2. They can be counted without measurement
3. Can use number before them

Step ǐǐ

A countable noun has two forms the singular and plural forms
'Computer is singular'

when you add 's' to end of it becomes computers now more than one computers there then now it's plural 
now we will learn how to a singular nouns convert to the plural form there few methods to make plural forms

1. Adding 's' end of the noun we learnt it above and see below examples

   Singular	Plural
   Notebook  Mobile Pen Car Shop	Notebooks Mobiles Pens Cars Shops

2. When nous ending with x, s, ch, or sh make plural form adding 'es' end of noun 

   Singular	Plural
   Glass Brush  Tax Church	Glasses Brushes Taxes Churches

   
   
   Also singular forms ending with 'O' takes 'es' after O
   
   
3. Some other nouns takes 'ies' that ending with 'Y' then nouns ending 'y' dropping Y add 'ies' end of noun

   Singular	Plural
   City Country Carry	Cities Countries Carries

   
   
   v  If  a vowel comes before ‘Y’ not dripping Y and only and ‘s’
         
             Boy             Boys
             Play             Plays 
   
   
4. Some other singular nouns ending in 'F' or 'FE" change the 'f' to 'v' and add 'es' to the nouns ( this rule not apply always )

   Singular	Plural
   Leaf Sheaf	Leaves Sheaves

Exercise 02 

Change following nouns into plural form

Boss Bird Knife Baby

Roof Pass Sandwich Story

Dish Day Tie Piece

Cat Address Fly Mobile

Note

Make Ownership nouns
See the following examples

1. Sue has a nice vehicle
2. Her sister uses sue's vehicle 
3. Sri Lanka players have come to the stadium
4. The player's mind is fair in this season

in sentence one we show the ownership of the vehicle by using a verb 'Has" in sentence two the ownership of the vehicle is shown by adding a "s" after the nouns sue so we have added an apostrophe before adding 's' now its form is sue's

now see the following example

• Computer  → Singular form of nouns
• Computers → Plural form
• Computer's → Ownership of computer
• Computers' → Ownership of more then one computer 

 Now you know how to identify a nouns in the sentence

1. See the whether the word is singular or plural
2. See if it show the ownership
3. 'a , an, the, one, two' these words are come before the words we can identify it as a noun .these are noun makers or determiners ( We learnt about these in an above lesson )

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Nouns in Sentences

Nouns serve as two major functions

1. Serve as the subject of the sentence
2. Serve as the objective of the sentence

As the Subject

• Nouns + Verb

1. The student writes
2. Jon works

• Nouns + Verb + Adjective or Adverb

1. The internet is useful
2. Workers are efficiency

As the objective

• Noun + Verb + Noun

1. Jon make decisions
2. Student use internet

• Noun + Verb + Indirect Objective + Direct Objective

1. Sue showed to the Jon  the new iPad
2. The bank gave the cheque 

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