This document provides information about nouns in English including different noun categories such as genre, plurals, countable-uncountable nouns, and Saxon genitive. It discusses noun genres including common and proper nouns. For plurals, it outlines the regular '-s' plural as well as irregular plurals. It also distinguishes countable from uncountable nouns and lists examples. Finally, it describes Saxon genitive possession including its use with people, proper nouns, plurals, and time expressions.

1. NOUNS
GENRE
Same form: baby, student, teacher
Endind: female, male
Different forms: family names: father.., actor, waiter, host, duke, prince,
lion, king, horse, dog,
PLURALS
-s
-es: s, ss, sh, ch, x, o
ves: life, knife, thief, leaf, shel, self, half, wife, wolf, calf, loaf
Irregulars: man, woman, mouse, child, person, foot, tooth, penny, ox
No plural: deer, fish
COUNTABLE-UNCOUNTABLE
Car/time
Different in English: advice, furniture, luggage, information
Look plural: species, series, news, physics
Always plural: clothes, scissors, pyjamas, shorts, glasses, trousers
SAXON GENITIVE
Only with people: the name of the cat
No article in front of proper nouns: Peter’s car
Plurals: The teachers’ cars
Proper English names: Charles’s house
Proper foreign names: Maximus’s work
Time expressions: Tonight’s programme