4. Nouns are the largest word class
A noun refers to a person,
animal or thing
Most nouns are common nouns, referring to
classes or categories of people, animals and
things
5. They are written with a capital letter at the start.
Proper nouns are the names of specific
people, animals and things.
Concrete nouns refer to material objects
which we can see or touch
Such as ideas, feelings and situations
Abstract nouns refer to things which are not
material objects
6. We use suffixes to make new words
We can add a suffix to a verb and
create a noun – adding ‘-ion’ to the
verb ‘act’ gives us the noun ‘action.’
For example
Act -ion
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Verb Suffix
Action
7. Suffix is a letter or group of letters
added to the end of a word
Suffixes are commonly used to show
the part of speech of a word
A noun, adjective, verb, etc
Suffixes also tell us whether the
words are plural or singular
10. We also know that verbs are action words
We use verbs to describe what
nouns do
11. I like to play in the park with my friends.
Play is a verb in this sentence.
We’re going to see a play tonight at the theater.
Play is a noun in this sentence.
12. Since there’s a lack of water coming from the
rain, I started watering my plants daily.
Water
My mom boxes everything she sees in huge
boxes of differente colors.
Box
13. There has been a lot of work at the place I work for.
Work
After my asma attack, the doctor decided to attack
the problem with new types of medicine.
Attack
14. Though the boy tried to use his broken alarm clock as
an excuse, the teacher would not excuse his absence
on the day of the final exam.
Excuse
We haven’t been able to hug due to the pandemic, but
lots of hugs will be given when the situation is over.
Hug
15. They have a singular and a plural form.
The singular form can use the determiner "a" or "an".
Countable nouns are for things we can count
using numbers
It's important to distinguish between countable and
uncountable nouns in English because their usage is
different in regard to both determiners and verbs
16. Abstract ideas
Qualities
Physical objects that are too small or too amorphous
to be counted (liquids, powders, gases, etc.)
They may be the names for:
Uncountable nouns are for the things
that we cannot count with numbers
They usually do not have a plural form
Uncountable nouns are used with a
singular verb
17. D
Countable nouns examples
Person one person, two people...
Book one book, two books
Idea one idea, two ideas
Dog one dog, two dogs
Car one car, two cars
House one house, two houses
Goal one goal, two goals
Uncountable nouns examples
Furniture pieces, types of
Advice pieces, types of
Money currencies
Coffee cups of – liters of
Bread rolls, loaves, buns of
Equipment pieces, types of
Love types of
18. To answer the questions How much?, How many?, how little?, how few?
Picking the right quantifier
Friends, cups, people
Certain quantifiers can be used
with countable nouns
Sugar, tea, money
Others with uncountable nouns
19. D
Countable
How many? How few?
Both
Uncountable
How Much? How little?
Many (big quantities) A lot of Much ( big quantities)
Few / a few / very few/ fewer (menos) Lots of Little / a little / very little/ less ( menos)
A number of Plenty of A bit of
Several (a good quantity) Enough A great deal of
A majority of All A good amount of
A great number of Some
