Presentación en inglés sobre los sustantivos (nouns). Especificando: definición, tipos, usos, etc.

1. Nouns
Andrés Rodríguez, Christian Campos, Valeria Santelmo,
Nicolás Novikow, Irune Capri, Claudia Castro.

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

3. Common & Proper
Common nouns are
your generic nouns.
Proper nouns name
specific things and
begin with a capital
letter.

4. Concrete & Abstract
Concrete nouns are
perceivable by the
senses.
Abstract nouns are
not tangible.

5. 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 fe

6. Uncountable nouns are substances,
concepts, others, that we cannot divide
into separate elements.
music, art, love, happiness
advice, information, news
furniture, luggage
Uncountable
We 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.

7. 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:

8. Singular & Plural Form
Irregular Nouns:
There are some irregular formations for nouns plurals

9. 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)

10. Compound & Collective
Claudia