talking the basic of nouns

1. NOUNS

2. NOUNS
TYPES
COMMON
NOUNS
PROPER NOUNS
GRAMMATICAL
DISTINCTION
COUNTABLE
NOUNS
UNCOUNTABLE
NOUNS
QUANTITY
SINGULAR
NOUNS
PLURAL NOUNS

3. Find out the nouns from this picture

4. TYPES OF NOUNS
•People who do something, ex: singer, player,
teacher
•Things, ex: pen, chair, book, truth
•Animals, ex: goat, cow, duck, hen kitten
•Places, ex: university, bank, hospital, mosque
COMMON
NOUNS
• People’s name, ex: Muhammad, Fatimah, Husein
• Days of the week or months of the year, ex: Tuesday,
Friday, September, August
• Special days and celebrations, ex: Ramadan, Id Adha,
Independence Day
• Famous places, buildings and monuments, ex: the
Borobudur Temple, Baturaden Park
• People living in particular country, ex: Indonesian,
Arabian
PROPER
NOUNS

5. QUANTITY OF NOUNS
Singular
Add “a” if the nouns begin with consonant letters, ex:
a river, a car
Add “an” if the nouns begin with vowel letters, ex: an
idea, an umbrella, an uncle
The words which begin with vowel letters but it is
pronounced like a consonants letters usually use “a”
not “an”, ex: a uniform, a university, a user.
The words which begin with consonant letters but it is
pronounced like a vowel letters usually use “an” not
“a”, ex: an hour, an honor, an honest man
Plural
Just add “s” to make most plural nouns, ex: chairs,
students
Nouns ended with s, ss, ch, sh, or x are added by “es”,
ex: buses, glasses, branches, bushes, boxes
Most nouns ended with “y” are changed to “I” and
added es, ex: babies, stories, cities, dictionaries
Nouns having a vowel before “y” are added “s”, ex:
keys, monkeys, days, boys

6. GRAMMATICAL DISTINCTION OF
NOUNS
COUNT
NOUNS
Nouns that can be
counted, ex: one child,
two books, three goats
It can be preceded by ‘a’
or ‘an’ in the singular,
ex: a friend, an hour
UNCOUT
NOUNS
Nouns that can’t be
counted, ex: water, rice, air,
sugar, salt
It can’t be preceded by ‘a’,
‘an’, or number
It can be added by the,
some, any, much, this, that,
a lot of

7. ARTICLES
A/AN
• The noun is singular
and countable
• It is the first time
mentioned
• It points out the
indefinite/unclear
person or things
• It is used for
measurements or ratio
• If the noun starts with
a vowel sound, then
the article an is used
• If the noun starts with
a consonant sound,
then the article a is
used
THE
• It is used for the things
mentioned before
• It is used for certain
things
• It is used for the nouns
that refer to the
species or group.
• It is used for the
adjective used as
nouns ex: the poor, the
blind
• It is used for the things
that are only
• It is for the name of
things
NO ARTICLE
• We do not need an
article if a noun is
plural or uncountable
and it is not definite
• Nouns preceded by
determiners do not
need articles
• Nouns preceded by
possessive pronouns
do not need articles
• Singular countable
nouns with no
determiner are also no
need articles