NOUN
Definition: A noun is a word used to refer to people, animals, objects, substances, states, events and feelings. Nouns can be a subject or an object of a verb, can be modified by an adjective and can take an article or determiner.
- Table
- Pencil
- The dog
- A white house
For example:
- birth
- happiness
- evolution
- technology, etc.
We are going to explain some rules that will help you to form the plural forms of the nouns. The general rule is to add "-s" to the noun in singular.
For exaample:
- Book - Books
- House - Houses
- Chair - Chairs
For exaample:
- sandwich - sandwiches
- brush - brushes
- bus - buses
- box - boxes
- potato - potatoes
For exaample:
- nappy - nappies
- day - days
- toy - toys
For exaample:
- Woman - Women
- Child - Children
- Sheep - Sheep
For example:
- my girlfriend's brother
- John's house
- The Browns' house
- The boys' pens
Noun Gender
Many common nouns, like "engineer" or "teacher", can refer to men or women. Once, many English nouns would change form depending on their gender. For example: A man was called an "author" while a woman was called an "authoress".
For example:
- David Garrick was a very prominent eighteenth-century actor.
- Sarah Siddons was at the height of her career as an actress in the 1780s.
- The manager was trying to write a want ad, but he couldn't decide whether he was advertising for a "waiter" or a "waitress"
- Proper nouns are the names of specific things, people, or places, such as Jhon, France. They usually begin with a capital letter.
- Common nouns are general names such as person, mansion, and book. They can be either concrete or abstract.
- Concrete nouns refer to things which you can sense such as clock and telephone.
- Abstract nouns refer to ideas or qualities such as liberty and truth.
- Countable nouns refer to things which can be counted (can be singular or plural)
- Uncountable nouns refer to some groups of countable nouns, substances, feelings and types of activity (can only be singular)
